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COVERING dBASES 

dBase Power and Compatibility 


CRICKET GRAPH 

The Best Graphing and Charting Tool? 


FLIGHT SIMULATOR & ORBITER 
The Skies Are Yours 


LETS TALK TELECOMMUNICATIONS 
A Friendly Guide to Getting Started 


MONEY AND MS WORKS 
A Financial Tutorial 




















Turbo Pascal for the Mac: 
incredibly fast and fully integrated! 


Borland’s new Turbo Pascal for the 
Mac“ is so incredibly fast that it can 
compile 1,420 lines of source code in 
the 7.1 seconds it took you to read 
this sentence. 

And reading the rest of this page 
takes about 5 minutes, which is plenty 
of time for Turbo Pascal for the Mac 
to compile at least 60,000 lines of 
source code! 

Turbo Pascal for the Mac does both 
Windows and “Units” 

The separate compilation of routines 
offered by Turbo Pascal for the Mac creates 
modules called “Unlts’-whlch can be 
linked to any Turbo Pascal* program. This 
“modular pathway” gives you “pieces” which 
can then be integrated into larger programs. 
(You build the “pieces” once, and you know 
they worit, so you can use the m again with¬ 
out having to recompile.) The immediate 
benefits of this technique are a more 
efficient use of memory and a reduction in 
the memory space needed to run large 
programs: (What you need to run Turbo 
Pascal for the Mac Is 256K mlnlmum-or 
halfaFatMac, 1 drive, and the ability to 
handle astonishing speed.) 


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Turbo Pascal for the Mac is so 
compatible with Lisa that they 
should be Uving together 
Not Just Lisa*, but also Macintosh 
Programmers’ Workshop Pascal” Routines 
from either one can be compiled and run 
with only the subtlest changes Turbo Pascal 
for the Mac Is also compatible with the 
Hierarchical Pile System” of the Macintosh” 
(You can define default volume and folder 
names for the names used in compiler 
directives.) Compatibility is also familiarity, 
and you’ll feel right at home with Turbo 
Pascal for the Mac because it fits neatly into 
every aspect of the Macintosh environment 
The pull-down menus are there, along with 
dialogue boxes to guide you in making 
choices and picking options. 

Turbo Pascal for the Mac cranks out 
more than 12,000 lines a minute 
Better than 12,000 lines per minute of 
compiled source code race out of Turbo 
Pascal for the Mac. There is definitely “No 
Waiting.” And none of the “stop/start" 
compiling delays that afflict some of the 
software programs that we’re not mention¬ 
ing here. (They can take 10 minutes to do 
what Turbo Pascal for the Mac can do in 


In all software, there’s the Hard Way, 
the Wrong Way, the Weird Way, the No Way, 
and the Borland Way. Welcome to the 
Borland Wayl 

How to walk and chew gum! 

Turbo Pascal for the Mac lets you do up to 
8 different things at once. You can have up 
to 8 separate programs in memory, work on 
one, move on; work on another, move back 
-or duck and weave between all 8 at the 
same time! And you can do these 8 Easy 
Pieces while you run the compiler. Multiple 
editing windows allow you to edit, compile, 
and execute each window individually. With 
several windows open at the same time, you 
switch from one open window to another 
faster than a cat burglar-and never get 
caught It’s “take the source code and run!" 


The 27-Second Guide to Turbo Pascal 
for the Mac 

■ Compilation speed of more than 12.000 lines 
per minute 

■ "Unit" structure lets you create programs in 
modular torm 

■ Multiple editing windows—up to 8 at once 

■ Compilation options include compiling to disk 
or memory, or compile and run 

■ No need to switch between programs to 
compile or run a program 

■ Streamlined development and debugging 

■ Compaiability with Lisa Pascal” and Macintosh 
Programmers’ Workshop Pascal 

■ Compaiability with Hierarchical File System of 
your Mac 

■ Ability to define default volume and folder 
names used in compiler directives 

■ Search and change features m the editor speed 
up and simplify alteration of routines 

■ Ability to use all available Macintosh memory 
without limit 

■ ’ Units" included to call all the routines 
provided by Macintosh Toolbox 


10 secondsi) 

You don’t spend a lot of up-front time 
learning to use Turbo Pascal for the Mac. It’s 
as easy as it is /ast^whlch is not to say that 
it’s over-simplified or written for people who 
have recently learned to walk erect. Instead, 
it’s electronic proof that sophistication and 
complication don’t need to go hand-in-hand. 


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Now you can automatically dial phone 
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schedule appointments, jot down notes, 


calculate business expenses—and more- 
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Once you get SideKick you'll wonder how 
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Introducing Reflex for the Mac, 
101’. Borland’s remarkable 
new relational database 


£ ecause it is a truly relational 
database, Reflex for the Mac" lets 
you get your various acts together. 
Lets you connect “A” to “B” to “C,” 
or “Dog” to “Cat” to “Fight." Or 
whatever links and connections 
you need to make and need to see. 
It’s a simple spreadsheet-style 
series of electronic andvisual cross- 
references. There’s a clear connec¬ 
tion (which you first make by 
drawing it on-screen) between 
“Client”—"Matter”—“Attorney”— 
“Time Sheet"—'“Expenses” and 
“Bill.” Or between “Slow Driver 
in Left-Hand Lane"-“Mile-long 
Traffic Jam” and “Shot from 
Behind” It’s all relational. 


Designed to make the 
most of your Mac’s visual 
talenta, Reflex for the Mac 
lets you place fields and 
pictures wherever you want 
them on the page—and 
print them that way with 
your Report Generator. 

A funny way to use 
Reflex for the Mac 
Let’s say you have to 
make a lot of speeches 
and you like to tell jokes, 
but can’t always remember 
the right one for the right 
audience at the right time. 
So you uae Reflex for the 
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that all connect to each 
other. 

Your “Joke” file connects 
to your “Audience” file, 
which is split into cate¬ 
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“Student" or whatever— 
all of which are intercon¬ 
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Reflex for the Mac lets you 
find the right Joke for the 
right audience, right now. 

(The serious sides of 
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stock portfolio manage¬ 
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VOL 1, NO. 14 NOVEMBER 1986 


MacUser 


Cover Photo bv Henrik Kam 



LET’S TALK TELECOMMUNICATIONS A 

friendly guide to getting started, by 
Pamela J. Roth ...96 


THE BIG PICTURE The Full Page Dis¬ 
play is a whole lot more than a big 
screen, by Steven Bobber .,..,.56 

THE MONEY’S IN THE WORKS Explor¬ 
ing the powerful financial functions 
of Microsoft Works, by Sharon Zar- 

detto Aker .... 60 

COVERING d BASES Finally, with 
dMac III , there’s a dBase III worka¬ 
li ke lor the Mac. by Henry Bort- 
man . 68 


D E SJ^T O P P U B L I S H I N G 

BRINGING PAGEMAKER TO LIFE Get- 
to grips with the doyen ot 
publishing applications, by 
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DISSECTING CRICKET GRAPH Don’t 
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THE FEEL OF PASCAL Hard-copy rou¬ 
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THE EDITOR’S DESKTOP The Reek of 
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WEST COAST REPORT Enter the IIGS. 
by Michael D . Wesley .................. 35 

THE MACINTOSH BOUNDARY The Real 
Costs of Software, by Doug Clapp4-1 
THE HELP FOLDER Answers From the 
Mac Team, by Dan Cochran 131 
THE DEVIL’S ADVOCATE There Is No 
Tomorrow, by John C. Dvorak 184 


D EPART M ENT S 

LETTERS Readers have their say .from 

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NEW ON THE MENU Latest updates. 

Rumor Manager, DTP Contest and 

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QUICK CLICKS A magnificent nine of 
the good, the pretty good and the, 

uh, ugly. . 43 

TIP SHEET Mac hints, tips and short¬ 
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MINIFINDERS Hundreds of capsule 
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STRIP SHOW A page of programs in 

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ADVERTISERS INDEX.164 

MACUSER AD DIRECTORY. .178 


Publishers Thought for the Month: 
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What effect will the new 
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Doug Clapp on (almost) 
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THE REEK 
OF HOT TOHER 

P rinters can be very conservative. Fm 
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bachelor’s degree in printing (along 
with journalism and photography) from 
the venerable Rochester Institute of 
Technology, I have met a lot of printers 
and so this editorial is based not only on 
a conversation I had at the Boston Mac 
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Only one thing can stop or slow down 
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THEM'S FIGHTIN' WORDS 

While I was at my convention booth 
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from what he called a “Desktop Publish¬ 
ing” organization stopped by to say 
hello. Turns out that his idea wasn’t 
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publishing at all. 

There was a lot of excitement on the 
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and the Mac. Booths featuring programs 
that linked the two were drawing huge 
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enjoy our conversation. 

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ing industry seemed rather non-plussed 
at all of the goings-on. He’d been around 
the floor and, “seen the Macintosh and 
the LaserWriter and, let’s face it, they’re 
just toys." 

Toys? ToysP Fm not die best person in 
die world to pick to use the word “toys" 
to when referencing the Macintosh and 
LaserWriter. Still, I smiled (outwardly) 
and asked if he could possibly explain 
himself. 


Well, there were die usual comments 
about the speed of the LaserWriter and 
diat the resulting output was not “pro¬ 
duction quality." Still, he insisted that he 
was very excited about desktop publish¬ 
ing. But when he explained his concept 
of that field I had to laugh. 

CART BEFORE THE HORSE? 

According to him, and to many people 
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lishing doesn’t really involve publishing. 
Instead, it is only entided to be what is 
called a “front end” to a print shop. 

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ply used to process words and include 
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you have a “toy LaserWriter" you can 
include some of that output as a sort of 
guide for the printer to use during his 
own layout process. 

I explained that my concept of desktop 
publishing meant diat the actual publish¬ 
ing was done on the desktop, that the 
LaserWriter was generating either the 
actual published documents or it was, at 
least, generating the “artwork" from 
which the plates to make die published 
pages would be “shot" via a photograph¬ 
ic process. 

No, he insisted, you just could not use 
such toys to do that type of process. 

At that point I explained to him that 
he should excise the word “toy” from his 
vocabulary if he intended to do any 
business on that particular convention 
floor. It took surprisingly long to con¬ 
vince him diat the word “toy” could be 
perjorative, but he did get the hang of 
not using it. Finally, he went off to other 
appointments. 


Was he right? I wondered after he had 
left. 

Could the LaserWriter really, by any¬ 
one, be considered toylike? 

Is desktop publishing just w hat you do 
to help printers set dieir own type? 

Does die future of desktop publishing 
lie in continuing to be only a front end? 

Bullcrackers, I quickly decided, and 
here’s why. 

IN THE BEGINNING 

It’s true that the output from a Laser¬ 
Writer is not yet as dear and crisp as that 
from a Mergenthaler type-setting ma¬ 
chine or even from an old-style Mono¬ 
type. But how much difference is there, 
really? 

I have seen LaserWriter output used in 
production situations many times. If the 
output is used in conjunction with “nor¬ 
mal” type the difference is more notice¬ 
able. But if used by itself the standard is 
very acceptable to the eye. Even if used 
in conjunction with print shop type 
there are ways, such as photographic 
reduction, to make the LaserWriter type 
so good it takes a “loupe” or magnifying 
glass to see the difference. 

Programs such as PageMaker and Mac- 
Publisher ^ Ready-Set-Go and Ragtime all 
couple to die text output of the Laser¬ 
Writer die ability to add graphics and to 
formulate your own layout and design 
ideas. Using them you can, for the first 
time in history, determine how your 
own printed words will look to the 
world without having a go-between. 
This, of course, and depending on your 
own artistic sensibilities, can be either a 
plus or a minus. 

Even now, as I write these words, 
there arc manuals, ads, brochures, re¬ 
ports, pamphlets, handouts, leaflets, 
magazines, newsletters and more all be¬ 
ing published via what I consider to be 
die best desktop publishing system 
around, the Macintosh and die Laser¬ 
Writer. And, many of the aforesaid pub¬ 
lications would never have seen the light 
of day without such a system. 

TWO POINTS BEYOND 

I lived through the changeover from 
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type” to “cold type,” I learned to run a 
Monotype machine being careful not to 
drop my pens (or hand) into die vat of 
molten lead, and I also learned how to 
load fonts into photo-typesetting ma¬ 
chines. I brew hotli technologies. 

But there was an enormous group of 
people who did nor. The first reaction of 
those who do not understand technology 
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livelihoods depend on older technology, 
can often be to suppress it. 

But there are two diings about desk¬ 
top publishing diat the printing industry 
had better learn, and they had better 
learn diem right away. 

The very first thing is diat desktop 
publishing means that people will, in¬ 
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house on their desktops. Future prod¬ 
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remove almost all, perhaps all, of the 
present limitations of the machines as to 
“production quality.” Desktop publish¬ 
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this case it is not the type that has 
changed but the number of people who 
will have personal access to the technol¬ 
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The second point is diat the printing 
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various priorities and methodologies can 
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revolution. Printers now need to realize 
that what they will be selling is their own 
expertise in design and in production. I 
can go to any art store and buy oil paints. 
But when I want a beautiful painting I 
will hire an artist. 

Desktop publishing and die printing 
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LETTERS 



All letters sent to our Letters to the Editor 
section become the property of MacUscr 
magazine. We reserve the right to print or 
edit any letters addressed to this section . 

YOU WIN SOME, YOU LOSE SOME 

I ’ve read a lot of computer magazines* 
and so far yours is Number One. Like 
many people, I don’t know what makes a 
computer tick and don’t want to* I like 
what they can do. Your magazine tells 
more about what the Mac can do and 
how to make it actually work than any 
other that I’ve read. 

Because of your magazine* lor the first 
time I’m beginning to feel there’s a 
computer around that isn’t covered with 
a black cloud of questions. Keep doing 
what you’re doing and don’t change a 
thing. 

Kenneth J. Burkart 

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL 


I t is not hard to see why the consumer 
has taken the IBM PC more seriously 
(than the Mac). I find the titles and 
artwork of your articles are frivolous. 
And I find rhe names of the software 
equally as frivolous. And you wonder 
why people arc not purchasing either die 
computer or the software. 

Ronni Hannaman 

MECH ANICSBU RG* PA 

Ton seem like exactly the kind of person 
who prefers her IBM. Enjoy it. — TFH 


DESKTOP PUBLISHING DILEMMA 

I dunk desktop publishing is going to be 
less of a boon and more of a boondog¬ 
gle for many companies. There is just so 
much more to it than they know about 
or have time to learn about. Layout and 
design are not picked up overnight. 
James F* Martin 

ROANOKE, VA 

Neither are writing skills. But does that 
mean people shouldnt use word processors? 
— TFH 


MISSING MINIFINDERS 

Y our Mini Finders section seems to lag 
behind some of the ads for the same 
software, I suspect this might be because 
ads arc sometimes pur out by develop¬ 
ment companies before die software is 
actually ready, so you haven’t had a 
chance to test it. Is dns an accurate 
suspicion? 

Also, in Doug Clapp’s “Secrets of 
Word" article (May 1986) he concludes 
that 18-point Chicago font is 18 points, 
or 18/72 of an inch high. In Mac type* 
faces* this is true if you count from the 


top of a capital letter to the bottom of a 
descender. The height of an 18-point 
capital letter is about 75 percent of 18 
points, or approximately 13 points* 
Bill Schuhle 

EL JEBEL, CO 

Traditionally , type has been measured in 
the way you describe, from the top of the 
ascender to the base of the descender. Many 
phototypefaces, however, arc now specified by 
the height of their capital letters , 

And, to answer your question about 
Mini Finders, we do try to cover sojhvare 
that is advertised in the magazine, since our 
readers will obviously want to know if what 
they see will be what they want. But our 
editorial and ad departments are two sepa¬ 
rate entities , and we generally don ? t know 
who will advertise until after we have 
completed work on an issue ♦ And you’re 
right — sometimes companies advertise 
products that don’t exist yet, to build inter¬ 
est in the products before they’re released. — 
TFH 



EXCLUSIVELY DEVILISH 

was sorry to hear that John Dvorak 

would no longer be writing for 
InfoWorld. Lucky for me (and the rest of 
us)* he seems to have found a permanent 
home at MacUscr. Don’t make rhe same 
mistake diey did, okay? There are plenty 
of us who’d find the computer world a 
whole lot grayer (or should I say, bluer) 
if it wasn’t for Mr. Dvorak’s unusual 
perspectives. 

Charles Johnson 

DALLAS, TX 


BIG, BORING BLUES 

T he July Devil’s Advocate column was 
very thought-provoking. To support 
his argument* one matter John Dvorak 
might have raised involves looking close¬ 
ly at what Fortune 1000 companies are 
doing with computers. I understand that 


it is mostly inventory control, budget 
management and forecasting, memo 
preparation, customer records manage¬ 
ment and process control. 

If that is what several million IBM 
PCs have been bought to do* then no 
wonder boredom has set in! Under such 
corporate applications the computer be¬ 
comes a new form of cash register, one 
that rakes filing chores over from human 
beings. How boring! 

L. Stone 

OTTAWA* ONT 


MS-BASIC’S LIBRARY BASICS 

n Ms. Aker’s review of Clear Lake 

Research’s libraries for MS-BASIC 
(July 1986), she stated that the library 
being used must reside on the same disk 
as iHSJC, This is not true, and CLR’s 
own manual even gives the syntax for the 
library statement when using the library 
on any disk. The syntax is library “My- 
Di$k:MyFb!derTooLib”, die folder des¬ 
ignation being necessary for HFS users. 
You can also call fonts from BASIC 
using the TEXTFONT statement direct¬ 
ly by their assigned ID numbers. These 
numbers are not restricted to 0 to 1L 
Brian Marshall 

LAKEWOOD* CO 


YOU CANT (ALWAYS) TEACH A NEW 
SYSTEM OLD TRICKS 

I tried your Power User’s Tip #73 
(“The Power User’s Guide,” February' 
1986) and got a dialog box that said* 
“You have an old Printer Driver, Put 
new System on your disk.” 

I have a 512E and run System 3.2 and 
Finder 5.3. Thank you anyway for 85 
terrific tips! 

Gary C. Van Handel 

HIGH I.AND, CA 

When MacPaint came out (along with 
the Mac), there was only one prints avail¬ 
able — the Image Writer — and MacPaint 
knew all about how to print to it. It didn’t 
need a separate driver \ When the Laser¬ 
Writer and other printers appeared, Mac¬ 
Paint had to be modified. The current 
version, 1.5, requires an external printer 
driver to print. Ton’ll need the current 
version of the driver for your printer to avoid 
getting that message , — SB 

ALL REVIEWS MAY NOT BE 
CREATED EQUAL 

U mice are not created equal! Your 
June 1986 issue reviewed FuUPaint 
and gave it five mice. On the other hand, 
the MiniFmder review gave it four mice 
— but gave MacPaint five mice* Yet die 


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BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES!!! 


ORBITER 

THE ADVENTURE BEGINS . . . PERSONAL PLANETARIUM 



TELLSTAR 


GATO puts you in the controJ room of 
a World War II combat submarine. This 
simulation uses a variety of realistic 
operations and strategies that will provide 
many hours of challenging entertainment 
pleasure. 

The position, courses, and maneuvers 
of the sub and all ships are continuously 
calculated and displayed in real-time as 
they pursue their strategic and tactical 
objectives in the patrol area. Three- 
dimensional object perspective in the 
conning tower and periscope screens, and 
offensive/evasive ship movement make 
every battle challenging. 

(IBM requires 128K, color graphics card, 
graphics monitor, double-sided drive. Apple lle'“ or 
lie”* requires I28K, single-sided drive. Joystick 
optional. Macintosh requires I28K.) 



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With ORBITER you can command a 
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As with GATO, this simulation places 
you at the controls with a degree of 
realism and graphics excellence unsur¬ 
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program. 

With ORBITER, we've taken your 
computer to its limits. We'll take your 
imagination even beyond. 

(IBM" requires 256K. color graphics card, ’ 
graphics monitor, double-sided drive. Available 
March, 1986. Macintosh'" requires 5I2K. single-sided 
drive.) 


Discover the excitement of astrono¬ 
my through TellStar, a guide to the 
constellations, planets, the sun, moon, 
and stars. Observe Halley's Comet; learn 
to locate and identify Taurus, Leo, Cancer, 
Saturn, Jupiter, and many other intriguing 
objects in the sky. Even the fascinating 
"Messier" objects are displayed. No prior 
knowledge of astronomy is necessary. 

A special "Utility" section is provided 
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horizontal, and precession conversions 
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"This has really expanded my field of 
vision. I saw more in the six weeks after I 
got TellStar than I had in the six years 
before that." TIME (April 16, 1984) 

(IBM requires I28K, color graphics card and 
monitor, double-sided drive, 8087 version available 
for faster processing. Apple II series requires 64K, 
single-sided drive. Macintosh requires 5I2K.) 



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LETTERS 



Quick Click review says it’s much better 
than MacPaint, 

111 bet if MacUser used some kind of 
relational database so that Mini Finder 
reviews were related to Quick Clicks and 
other reviews, this wouldn’t happen. 
James F. Burke, Jr 

AKRON, OH 

In the coime of getting out the magazine 
every month, we don’t always have time to 
check everything against everything else as 
carefully as we’d like. You’re absolutely 
right that using a relational database 
would help alleviate the problem — and 
we’ll take the idea into serious consideration 
the next time we test a database in-house. 
That way , we’ll try to make sure that 
reviews written by different people are at 
least consistent in the ratings> Meanwhile, 
see this month's New on the Menu for some 
important news about FullPaintV mouse 
rating. — TFH 

WIGGED OUT ON WIGGINS 

T hank you for resurrecting your Pin* 
stripe Mac column. Although it may 
have looked at first like the Mac wasn’t 
going to turn out to be a business 
computer after all, those of us who need 
computers in our offices — but despise 
the rigid, humorless Big Blue — need 
somewhere to turn for informative ad¬ 
vice on using the Mac office, 

Robert Wiggins takes what by all 
rights should be a dull, stodgy subject 
and makes it fun to read. If IBM maga¬ 
zines had writers like him, maybe people 
would actually read them, not just leave 
them on their desks to look good. 

Pat Heineman 

NEW YORK, NY 


T hanks for the article about “Outfitting 
Your Office” in the August issue. It 
couldn’t have come at a better time for 
me. Thanks to you I narrowly avoided 
spending SI000 more than I had to. 

JENNIFER COLRERN 
LANSING, Mi 

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You do more than spreadsheet calculations. Jazz®does more than that, too. Five times more than 
that. More than any other single piece of software made for your Apple® Macintosh” personal computer. 


Five powerful functions—not just a smattering of this and that—but five functions deep enough 
to stand alone: spreadsheet, database, word processing, graphics and communications. 

All five so thoroughly integrated that they work beautifully together through a unique Jazz 
feature called HotView. 

With Jazz you can direct your attention to many projects—or many parts of the same project— 
without changing programs. With Jazz you can revise or update information in one document or 
several documents instantly. With Jazz you can work the way you work best. 

All of which simply means this: you can be more productive, more effective—you can do more, 
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Go ahead. Get a demonstration at a Lotus authorized dealer. 

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ON THE 


MENU 


MACS HAVE 
MORE FUN 

If MacUser were giving out 
Weird Software . of the Year 
awards, the prize would have to 
go to the new Infocom/Activt- 
sion offering, Leather Goddess¬ 
es of Phobos {we’re not kid¬ 
ding). The program comes 
complete with a 3-D comic 
book, a set of 3-D glasses, and 
a Scratch-n-Sniff card (don’t 
ask!). The program's documen¬ 
tation mentions three play 
modes: tame, suggestive and 
lewd. More on this game, as we 
work up the courage to “get 
into it." — DB 


DIRECT MAIL SPECIAL 


Power is getting cheaper ev¬ 
ery day. The new GraphicWorks 
program from Mindscape may 
be just what you are looking for 
for your desktop publishing 
needs, and it only costs 
$79,95. This powerful pro¬ 
gram, very similar to Minds- 
eape’s other great graphics pro¬ 
gram, ComicWorks, Is being 
sold by direct mail only. It 
handles graphics and text well, 
and is capable of high-quality 


page layout. Art can be directly 
imported without the use of an 
external program. Among the 
many features are a disk of 
templates for newsletters and 
storyboards, three levels of Fat- 
Bits, a wonderful airbrush tool, 
and the use of independent 
graphic objects with assignable 
priorities. 

For more information contact 
Mindscape at PO Box 1167, 
Northbrook, IL 60065. — SB 



MORE MAC PETS 

Recently we told you about 
the Talking Moose, a desk acces- 
soiy to keep you and your Mac 
company. Now we have some¬ 
thing much better: your own 
puppy to raise and train. The 
program is called Puppy Love> 
Its cute little black pup comes to 
you from a junk yard where it 
has been abandoned. 

Once you gel your carefree 
dog home, you can begin train¬ 
ing. The goal is to learn enough 
tricks to win ribbons, trophies, 
and, ultimately, the Golden Top 



BRICKBATS a 

version of their best-sellvngJMBH' 

Point program. They’ve also n- 
chided a utility program to et 

users with ImageWnter Ilsprmt 

in color, in our revrew -n the 
September issue we sai 


Logic oyswjius. They offered 
their Wont Handler word pro¬ 
cessor for an introductory price 
of $29.95 if you sent m your 
MacWrite master disk. A 
claimed vou could have it back 


September issue -™ if you sent them wo w* i™™-» 

FullPamt lost a and handling.” Their current ads 

copy protection. We re extreme^ mention of the Sio 

leased to give this fine program now „ started 

r T'htc news came 


pleased i & _ came 

its fifth mouse. This news c _ 
too late to update thmissue 
MiniFinders, but the five mice 

will be there in the next issue. 

QUED, the super text or pro¬ 
gram editor from Paragon 
Courseware, has been upgra e. ^ 
The new version,! .5, showssR 
of becoming a real word proces 
sor. Could the best text editor be 
on its way to becoming the best 
word processor? 

The latest versions of Mac 

ueitMiw. «*■**£ 

pro 1 


Dog Award at the local dog 
show. As you teach your puppy 
tricks you’ll also be learning the 
basics of simple programming. 
Your dog can do whole routines 
and react to the environment. 
There’s something in this pro¬ 
gram for everyone, from the 
youngest Mac user to the oldest. 

Puppy Love was written by 
Tom Snyder and is published by 
Addison-Wesley. It lists for a 
mere $19.95. Look for a litter on 
display at your dealer. — Ellen 
Hirame 


proved alreaoy \im h -.-ci^red 
were offered free to registered 
owners, in fact, the new version 

of MacLigMnm .®"j£ 
sent right out. If you had regis 
tere d your 1.0 version, you got 
2 o. No fuss, no bother, no nee ^ 

to do anything That’s the way it 

bh °Dubl-Click Software has gath¬ 
ered together the most extensive 
and impressive collector. of 
ImageWriter fonts 5* “V 
They’ve been packaged on six, 
yes, y six disks and teamed with 
some really handy fcgjJJJ 
software. Check our MiniFinders 

for more details. 

A h.^ and a hiss to Advanced 


charge. When we contacted 
them they said they had upgrad¬ 
ed the program (to ve ^ 10n „’ 
which includes graphic han¬ 
dling) and offered to return 
MacWrite disks for $1 ° 
send in a proof of purchase 
dated 1 October or earlier. By 
the way, to get vour upgrade^ 
send vour master back with a 
tamped, self-addressed enve¬ 
lope. That’s all that will cost 

A loss of a mouse (for a short 

time only we hope) to Micro¬ 
phone. This superb program had 
the normal number of minor 
bugs a new program will always 
ha fe when it is first released. 
The usual procedure is tote- 
lease a “bug-fix” version soon 
afterward. That hasn’t happened 
STL while such a release is 
much talked about, we can t pm 

down a date. This is a mouse we 

reallv want to give back soon. 

Finally, a round of applause 
for those mail order me.chants 
who have not given any of you 
reason to complain to us m the 
the previous month. This month 
we’d like to applaud The Mac 
Connection, Desktop Software 
Center and The Savings Zone. 


26 MACUSER NOVEMBER 1986 































HARD & SOFT 

Two very impressive new 
products have recently arrived 
in the MacUser offices. The first 
is PCPC r s new HD-21 Hard 
Disk, This 20-megabyte hard 
disk connects to your Mac's 
SCSI port. It’s based on the 
excellent PCPC MacBottom 20 
serial port hard disk. That unit 
has earned an excellent reputa¬ 
tion, The new unit is the same 
size, uses the same excellent 
Rodim e drive, and has the qui¬ 
etest fan we've ever seen in a 
hard disk. For reliability, ease of 
use (the ID number jumper 
block is easily accessible on the 
back), and quietness, this com¬ 
pact unit is going to be hard to 
beat. List is S1195, but it’s 
already being advertised at 
much lower prices by dealers. 
For more information contact 
PCPC at 6204 Benjamin Rd. r 
Tampa, FL 33614, (800) MAC- 
BUTT or (813) 884-3092 

The other great new product 
is a spelling checker It's called 
Thunder! and it's from Batteries 
Included, We've been using 
beta versions so far, but It will 
be out just around the time we 
go to press. 

While everyone has different 
needs in spelling checkers, 
Thunder! is the one I can t live 
without now. It runs all day, 
every day. Thunder! is primarily 
an interactive checker, but 
works very well in selection 
checking mode, its Learn fea¬ 
ture gives you a high-powered 
glossary function in any pro¬ 
gram. It currently lacks a the- 
saurus function (get MacUght- 
ning for that) and is not quite the 
equal of Spellswell as a selec¬ 
tion checker. — SB 

RUMOR MANAGER 

The multitasking Finder re¬ 
placement wars are over! Apple 
has dropped the Recognition 
project (for good, it is alleged). 
The Erato crew has also given 
up and is developing new sys¬ 
tem software for a new 68020- 
based machine from a major 
European manufacturer. That 
leaves Andy Hertzfeld’s Servant 
as the clear winner. It's no 
longer a rumor. You'll have to 
check the news columns for 
further information. The only 
other project still underway is 
the rather feeble TaskMaster 
from a smatl West Coast group. 

. . . The hot category for Christ- 



APPLE SPONSORS DTP CONTEST 


It h s official! We're very happy 
to announce that Apple Comput¬ 
er has agreed to officially spon¬ 
sor the MacUser Desktop Pub¬ 
lisher of the Year Contest, which 
sharp-eyed readers will have 
seen announced in our Septem¬ 
ber and October issues. 

We have also decided to ex¬ 
tend the entry deadline for this 
contest by two weeks to October 
14th — that is, about the time 
you’re probably reading this! (So 
why are we telling you? Just for 
the record, folks, just for the 
record.) The extension was an¬ 
nounced on various electronic 
bulletin boards and through our 
network of Macintosh User 
Group contacts in response to 
requests from many potential 
entrants. 

Winners of the four main cat¬ 
egories — Newsletters, Books & 
Manuals, Advertisements and 
General — will receive $500 
worth of Mac software each, 


together with an individually en¬ 
graved plaque. The overall win¬ 
ner will receive a LaserWriter 
Plus with all the trimmings and 
an even fancier plaque. Plus 
instant fame in the Macintosh 
community, of course! ( Apple 
may use excerpts from entries in 


their national advertising cam¬ 
paigns for desktop publishing.) 

Apple and MacUser have ap¬ 
pointed a panel of judges to 
assess all entries on the basis of 
originality, technical proficiency, 
aesthetic appeal and effective 
use of the medium. We will be 
publishing the results of the 
MacUser Desktop Publisher of 
the Year Contest in our January 
1987 edition. Watch this 
space,.... 


□□□□□□□□□CAN YOU TOP THIS? □□□□□□□□□ 


Macs and IBM PCs on the 
same network can finally share 
information and resources, 
thanks to a new networking soft¬ 
ware package, TOPS r , TOPS per¬ 
mits Macs to communicate with 
IBM PCs on AppleTalk, and 
share hard disks, printers, and 
other peripherals, without any 
dedicated hardware. 

TOPS allows the Macintosh to 
store Files on a PC floppy or hard 
drive, and retrieve them directly, 
through the standard OPEN dia¬ 
log, Lotus 1-2-3 files can be 


opened from within Excel, with 
all equations in the spreadsheet 
intact. Formatted Wordstar 
files, as well as text Tiles, can be 
accessed from Mac Write and 
Word, complete with most for¬ 
matting information. The con¬ 
version routines are part of the 
TOPS software, and are com¬ 
pletely transparent to the user. 
TOPS also works as a network 
server for multiple Macintoshes, 
allowing files and programs to 
he shared between various ma¬ 
chines on the network. The sys¬ 


tem runs entirely in the back¬ 
ground, so that all the Macs on 
the network can be used while 
serving is occuring. The IBM 
package includes a plug-in card 
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to AppleTalk, 

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saw it working at the Boston Mac 
Expo). For more information, 
contact Centram Systems West, 
2372 Ellsworth Ave. T Berkeley, 
CA 94704. (415) 549-5900. — 


mas will be word processing 
with new products appearing on 
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released. ... A major Mac 
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purchased a large number of 
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from Japan. They’re already 
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1987. . . , Apple is preparing to 
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answers range from not much 
to everything. Right now it 
takes about 3 megabytes of disk 
space. So get your hard disks 
ready and look for it in January. 
. . . One of the largest telecom¬ 
munications companies in the 


world is about to leap into the 
Mac market with a very major 
product, .... Some serious 
rethinking at Apple has the Col¬ 
or Mac back on the production 
schedule. The hope is June, but 
September is more realistic ac¬ 
cording to the engineers. . . . 
The IBM desktop publishing 
programs are proving to be the 
strongest sales tool for Mac 
desktop publishing, Apple and 
third party advertising should 
be reflecting this "fact 11 even as 
you read this. . . . Hayes is 
about ready to release their 
custom Mac development envi¬ 
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Deep in the jungles of the 
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The Parameter Manager™ (PM) 

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by Michael D. Wesley 


ENTER THE IIGS 


J im Novice, first-time computer buyer, 
walks into a computer store to check 
out what they have to offer and find 
out whether one of these high-priced 
boxes will really help him organize his 
business, household and social life, all of 
which have been falling apart lately be¬ 
cause he just has too much work to do. 
Jim is surprised not to find any IBM PCs 
or clones, only Apple equipment. The 
dealer explains that since Apple’s product 
line now' offers a solution for virtually 
every need they decided to drop all the 
other lines. (Now you know for sure that 
this is fiction, right?) 

The dealer then shows Jim Apple’s 
carefully structured product line, all co¬ 
ordinated in Apple’s corporate color, 
platinum. First is the lie, a simple, 
nonexpandable machine ideal for kids 
and game players and great for light 
dusting around the home. Jim is non¬ 
committal on the lie, so the dealer 
continues. The next step up, Jim is told, 
is the He, an “open” box with slots so it 
can be customized. Jim’s mind formu¬ 
lates an image of an Apple II with 
oversize tires, heavy chrome detailing 
and mag wheels. Somehow this is not 
quite what Jim is looking for. 

The dealer, feeling that Jim is slipping 
away from her, quickly moves on to the 
new Apple IIGS, the pinnacle of the 
Apple II line. Like the lie, this stylish 
new box has slots, “but” the dealer 
explains “you don’t have to use them. 
The slots are mapped to ports at the back 
of the machine so if you want a hard disk 
or modem you just plug it in.” Only the 
last five words in this statement make 
any sense to Jim, but they sound appeal¬ 
ing so he begins to perk up a bit. 

The dealer plunges into a demo of 
Activision’s Paint Works, and then Fan- 
tmnsum or Newsmaker from Brodcrhund, 
to show off the new machine’s high- 
resolution RGB color display. The soft¬ 
ware Jim sees uses a mouse, menus, and 
windows and seems very easy to use. The 
dealer tells Jim that the IIGS is very fast 
and powerful and can be expanded to 8 
megabytes of RAM. Again, automotive 
images creep into Jim’s mind. 

Jim is interested in the IIGS, but has 
heard a lot about the Macintosh and 
wants to see one. The dealer gracefully 
escorts him across the store to the taste¬ 
fully decorated “business” section, and 
introduces Jim to the Macintosh En¬ 


hanced 512 as die “low-end” Macintosh, 
a basic starter system for the business 
user. Like the program Jim saw on the 
IIGS, the Mac software utilizes a mouse, 
pull-down menus and windows. The 
dealer launches into a lengthy explana¬ 
tion of die benefits of the Mac for 
desktop publishing, a concept that Jim 
knows and cares nothing about. 

Jim gets a bit confused at this point 
and asks the dealer to explain the differ¬ 
ence between die IIGS and the Macin¬ 
tosh. The dealer says that the IIGS is a 
“high-end consumer” machine, while the 
Macintosh Enhanced 512 is a “low-end 
business product.” After a short demo of 
FullPaint on the Mac, Jim is quickly 
maneuvered over to the Mac Plus, die 
current “high-end” business tool, (“Un¬ 
til,” the dealer says secretively, “the open 
Mac comes out.”) 

Jim ponders all of this for a moment. 
He is not sure whether his end is high or 
low, but he knows that he is a consumer 
who needs a machine primarily for busi¬ 
ness use. Jim scops for a moment to 
ponder the beautiful simplicity of the 
marketing plan that has put him into 
such a hopeless muddle. 

The Mac Plus seems too powerful and 
expensive for Jim, so he concentrates on 
the IIGS and the Mac. Looking back and 
forth across the floor of the computer 
store, Jim sees that both machines appear 
to be easy to use, have good graphics and 
claim to be very powerful. Jim wonders 
why he should pay extra for the Mac 
when he can do the same kinds of tilings 
on a IIGS in color. He looks at the 
attractive gray on gray display of the 
Mae, then secs a similar design in 16 
colors on the IIGS. For Jim, in this 
situation, the Mac would be the hard 
choice. Forget the fact that very few 
products on the IIGS will initially use 
the mouse and windows interface. See¬ 
ing a Mac-like machine in color is im¬ 
pressive. 

When I went to a press rollout at 
Apple for the IIGS, then named the 


Cortland but at one rime known as 
Rani bo, mv immediate concern was 
what the machine might do to sales of 
the 512K Mac. I was fortunate to have 
die opportunity to put the question to 
John Scullcy, who restated, very nicely, 
what Apple sees as a clear distinction 
between its consumer products, the Ap¬ 
ple II line, and die business machines in 
the Mac family. He did agree, however, 
that the introduction of the IIGS could 
have an impact on Mac sales. More 
significantly, though, Mr. Scullcy also 
said that Apple did not want to follow 
IBM’s lead (whatever happened to 
PCjr?) and shortchange the IIGS just to 
keep it from competing with the M*ac. 

What Apple has with the IIGS is a fast 
and powerful color machine, with some 
of the capabilities of Macintosh. It uses 
a central processing chip that makes it 
possible to expand the machine’s memo¬ 
ry up to 8 megabytes. It runs existing 
Apple II software up to 2.5 times faster 
than a He. The IIGS has window, menu 
and font managers and a complete “tool- 
box” so developers of new products can 
access QuickDraw. The IIGS is the first 
computer to reflect Apple’s commitment 
to bring the Apple II and Macintosh 
lines closer together. And it has color 
and sound that have to be experienced to 
be believed. 

APPLE II ON A CHIP 

In order to accomplish a tough set of 
design goals — keep the IIGS compati¬ 
ble with existing Apple II software; keep 
the system board the same size as the 
lie’s so lie owners can upgrade, and 
provide increased power, speed and 
memory — Apple was forced to do some 
amazing tricks of engineering. Tops on 
the list: an Apple II on a chip. Apple’s 
engineers created a single custom chip 
called Mega II that contains virtually 
everything that makes an Apple II an 
Apple II. 

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interest to Mac users for two reasons. 
First, the feat is, in itself, remarkable, and 
serves as a strong indication that Apple is 
willing to go the limit technologically to 
try to support a growth path for existing 
customers. (Did someone say Apple III? 
Was it Lisa?) 

In addition. Mega II has tremendous 
implications for future Mac products. A 
Mac on a chip? An Apple engineer 
implied (and subsequent rumors strong¬ 
ly support the implication) that the ani¬ 
mal already exists . My understanding is 
that the chip is a 1-inch cube (with a 
square 68020 processor at the base). 
This could mean a portable Mac in die 
near future (although it probably won’t), 
but more likely it will be the starting 
point for high-powered workstations 
that can perfectly emulate a Mac. 

Also of more than passing interest: a 
Mac with one slot (the Mac Plus Plus?) 
will probably debut in January. Some 
developers will have been seeded with 
prototype units by early September. 

MORE OF THE FUTURE 

Beyond the 68000 lies a region as yet 
unexplored but with almost staggering 
potential. The next generation — the 
68040. The Mac’s 68000 is a 16/32-bit 
processor and the 68020 is a32/32(or 
“true 32-bit”) cainchcr. Well, according 
to rumor, the 68040 is designed to be a 
64/128-bit processor, and I am told that 
the design specification calls for it to run 
at 100 MHz (about 12 times faster than 
the Mac Plus). Unfortunately it will 
probably be 2 years before compledon 
but then, who knows? 

APPLE BUSINESS FORUM 

Apple had mixed success with the 
Apple Business Forum touring road 
show this summer. The 12-city tour 
featured products in the categories Apple 
is focusing on for its marketing push this 
fall: Desktop Publishing, Desktop Com¬ 
munications, Desktop Engineering and 
Desktop Productivity. Products ranged 
from CAD software for engineering 
drafting to page layout to high-powered 
databases. 

While the San Francisco show was 
well publicized and extremely well at¬ 
tended, I heard diat the shows in places 
like Kansas City and Denver were pretty 
dead. One of die developers placed the 
attendance in Denver at about 400 over 
two days. It’s a shame because die forum 
was an excellent introduction to the Mac 
as a business machine, and I heard a lot 
of people wandering through the Hyatt 
Union Square muttering about buying a 
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by Doug Clapp 

THE SEAL 
COSTS OF 
SOFTWARE 

I just reread the first part of this two- 
part column. The columns are about 
how much it costs to produce a soft¬ 
ware package. 

Last month we pegged the price of 
software at about SI0.50 per package, 
give or take. Royalties, disks, manual, a 
box for everything; that sort of thing. 
Not too complicated. 

And, considering you can 
charge...well you can charge a lot more 
than $10.50 for each one! Mavbc 
$79.95? Or $125.43? Or $325.99? If 
you can get it, go for it! Riches. Yachts. 
Porsches. Groceries. 

But mavbc not. There are a few other 
expenses we didn’t discuss. And “a few” 
is a euphemism. 

First and worst (or best, depending on 
your point of view) is advertising. Got 
any idea how much advertising costs? 
Ever thought about it? 

ADVERTISING COSTS A LOT OF 
MONEY!!!! REALLY!!! 

Take the magazine snuggled in your 
warm little hands. Let’s say you buy a 
full color, full-page ad in MacUser. Just 
one. If so, you’ll pay $5,385, less 15%, 
or $4,577. (The 15% is a discount called 
an “agency discount” — for advertising 
agencies — but everybody gets the dis¬ 
count, so it’s essentially an automatic 
knock-off.) 

Naturally, if you run the same ad more 
than once, the cost for each “insertion” is 
lower than the one-time rate. Let’s say 
you purchased a 12-insertion contract in 
MacUser . The price for each ad drops to 
$4,090. A lot less than $4,577. Still, 12 
times S4,090 is $49,080. Which is also 
known as “Ohmvgod that’s over AL- 



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MOST FIFTY THOUSAND DOL¬ 
LARS!” 

Which doesn’t mean it’s dumb to 
advertise, only expensive. Apple is lavish 
(though canny) with multipagc, full- 
color spreads and they’ve got hundreds 
of millions of dollars in the bank. Bor¬ 
land International came from nowhere 
on the strength of full-color, full-page 
ads that are seemingly everywhere (and 
often on “inside covers,” which cost 
more than other places in the magazine). 
And I bet Philippe Kahn only eats ham¬ 
burger when he really wants t^. 

And Tandy is firmly ensconced on the 
back cover of BYTE. If you think the 
AlacUscr rates are high, check out BYTE. 
For that matter, check out Macworld. 

The rates are a function of circulation. 
The larger die circulation, the higher the 
ad rates. Phrases like “cost per thousand” 
arc bandied about with ease. Magazines 
can also “prove” their circulation is what 
they claim, by having their circulation 
audited, in much the same way that 
business have their books checked out by 
an independent firm. Start-up magazines 
can also guarantee advertisers a given 
circulation. It’s like this: “We promise a 
circulation of 50,000, regardless of any¬ 
thing. We won’t stop the presses until 
50,000 copies are printed. And we’ll 
distribute them, even if it means sending 
out free copies.” And sometimes they do. 

Just to leave no unturned stones: Mac- 
User guarantees a paid circulation of 
100,000, but actually has a paid circula¬ 
tion of about 130,000 (or did when I 
wrote this; it’s probably somewhat high¬ 
er as you’re reading this). Their audit, 
probably complete as you read this, 
should confirm those figures. 

But owning a magazine isn’t like print¬ 
ing money. Magazines flicker out like 
July fireflies. And competition for adver¬ 
tisers is fierce. 

Then there’s distribution of your 
product. You’ve got three choices. You 
can sell it yourself, by mail order. Or you 
can sell direct to dealers. Or you can sell 
to distributors, and let diem sell to 
dealers. Or you can do some combina¬ 
tion of the three. 

If you sell direct, you get to keep die 



R Y 


most. Of course, dicrc’s the price of that 
toll-free line, and people to take orders, 
and people to ship the product. And 
your product won’t be “on the shelves” 
anywhere, so you can kiss off impulse 
buyers. Still, sometimes it’s effective. 
Borland started that way, and many 
companies, particularly those with lan¬ 
guages and other program development 
products, arc direct sales only. 

Sell to dealers and you gotta give the 
dealer a cut. Maybe 40%. If you sell it 
direct for $100, you'll probably sell to 
dealers for $60. They’ll sell it for $100 
and keep $40. 

Fort)' percent is a big discount. 

But wait. Maybe you sell to distribu¬ 
tors. In that case, you might have to give 
up 60%! 60%! That’s one reason B. 
Dalton’s and Waldenbooks make big 
bucks: they don’t pay much for each 
book. You pay “list” and they buy for a 
pittance. 

Of course, if you deal with distribu¬ 
tors, you’ll probably move more prod- 
ucts.You’ll get less for each, but you’ll sell 
more. On one hand...and on the other 
hand... Harr)'Truman was right when he 
wished for a “one-armed economist.” 

Advertising and discounts. Big ex¬ 
penses. And it goes on. We haven’t even 
mentioned traditional costs of doing 
business. Legal fees. Rent. Telephone 
(imagine that one). Freight costs (anoth¬ 
er biggie). Insurance. Office supplies. 
Interest, if you borrowed money. 

Salaries. You’re not working for free, 
right? What are you worth? Or maybe 
you’ll take something out of profits, 
when the money rolls in. Can you pay 
the mortgage payment until then? Most 
people can’t. 

If you’re a bit dazed by the marketing 
decisions, you can always hire a market¬ 
ing director. Mavbc an MBA. But they 
aren’t cheap. Secretaries aren’t cheap. 
The people in back who write out ship¬ 
ping labels aren’t cheap. 

All this assumes, of course, that the 
people you sell to will pay up. Ever seen 
the cartoon of the gleeful little guy 
cartwheeling with laughter, holding his 
stomach, with the caption “You want it 
when?” 

And remember to set aside a big 
chunk of money for taxes. A big chunk. 
Nuclear warheads and Contra aid aren’t 
cheap, you know. 

But, even after all that, there might — 
there just might — be something called 
“profit” left over. And if not.... 

“Boss, we’re losing monev on each 
sale!” 

“Don’t worry, we’ll make it up in 
volume.” 0^ 


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There was a time, in the deep dark past 
of humankind, that electronic circuit design 
was a cumbersome task. Circuits could be 
mapped with pencil and paper and compo¬ 
nent values estimated, but the circuit al¬ 
most always had to be assembled (a task 


known as breadboard mg) and tested before 
actual values could be known. Many was 
the time that a circuit had to be tom up and 
rebuilt from scratch because it just didn't 
work as planned. While there were comput¬ 
er programs that could simulate circuits, 
they tended to run on mini and mainframe 
computers, and weren't at all intuitive or 
graphically oriented. Then came Macin¬ 
tosh, a collection of sophisticated electron¬ 
ic circuitry, and DesignScope , software that 
utilizes the power of Macintosh circuits to 
simplify the design of electronic circuits. 

DesignScope is an interactive tool that 
lets you plan a circuit as a block diagram, 
placing components on the Mac screen in 
their respective positions without having to 
know their values. Values can then be 
estimated and a simulation run to test the 
circuit. The resulting waveforms are viewed 
on-screen. If the simulation produces the 
desired result, the circuit can quickly be 
designed. If not, just tinker with the values 
or change the design and run the simula¬ 
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Scope can store up to four simulations at a 
time. Once a circuit is working it can be 


saved as a module and incorporated into 
other, larger circuits. 

DesignScope has a large collection of 
components just a menu selection away, 
including amplifiers, comparators, filters, 
switches, integrators, differentiators, logi¬ 
cal AND, NAND, OR, NOR, and XORs, noise 
generators, phase-locked loops, etc. Dou¬ 
ble-clicking opens dialog boxes that hold 
the values you want to experiment with. To 
establish connections simply draw lines 
between components. When a circuit is 
complete, run a simulation over time and 
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point, move the cursor over the plot. Two 
boxes appear below the plot with precise 
measurements of voltage and time. 

DesignScope is Intended to be a tool for 
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electronics and circuit design. Both the 
manual and the program assume a thor¬ 
ough knowledge of the subject. — MDW 


COMICWORKS liil 

List Price: $79.95. Published by Mind- 
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Comic Works ts a new entry into the al¬ 
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graphics software, and although the name 
implies that this program is specifically 
suited to creating comic books, Comic- 
Works has a lot of potential to be used as 
an alternate page layout program, it pushes 
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farther than many thought possible, thanks 
to some unique tools. 

Pages are divided into panels and easels. 
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separate bit mapped graphic. EaseJs can be 
moved around and edited individually, even 
after positioned, Graphics can be pasted in 
from the usual sources {Clipboard, Scrap¬ 
book), or Art Grabber + (included with the 
program) can be used to copy sections of 
MacPaint documents. The fun begins when 
you start to create graphics in the program. 


A unique airbrush (with adjustable spray 
width, air pressure and dot randomization) 
replaces the familiar MacPaint spray can. 
Any portion of a graphic can be scaled, and 
the scaling factor is adjustable. And you'll 
wish that the editable grid was standard in 
all Macintosh graphics programs. 



Text is entered in the form of text bal¬ 
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expected size, requiring some fiddling to 
get it right. 

Comic Works is a smooth, slick program 
that should find it's way into every graphics 
enthusiast's hands, comic book fan of not 
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Dlllthlum Pres* 


PC to Mac and Back with Cables 

105,00 

Dreams Of The Phoenli 


Mouse Exchange Terminal 

27,00 

Hayes Microcomputer Smartcom l| 

89-00 

Mainstay 


Teloscapc Pro (VT100 Emulator) 

79.00 

Turbo Download 

25.00 

Palantir 


intalk (TTY, VT-100, 


ADOS, IBM 3101, Vidtex) 

79 00 

Think Technologies, Inc. 


(nflox-Startor Kit 


(3 Personal Connections) 

215 00 

inSox-Additional Personal 


Connections 

59 00 

DataBase Management 

Ash Ion-Tale dBase Mac 

309.00 

Blythe Software Omnia 3 Plus 

27900 

Borland Reflex 

59.00 

Forethought FileMaker Plus 

159.00 

Factfinder V 1.1 

62 00 

Format Softwa re Transfer Programs and or 

Databases in dBase III from the PC lo Mac 

and run them without Modification! 


dMac lit 

349.00 


Layered Front Desk 

Notes For Jazz or Excel 

Mainstay 

Micetro Information Manager 
Microsoft Microsoft File 1.02 

Odesta Helix f Version 2.0) 

Double Helix 

ProVUE Development Over VUE 2.06 
Software Discoveries, Inc. 

Record Holder 

Telus Software Business FilsVision 

29 00 
42 00 

62,00 

110,00 

10500 

27500 

14900 

49.00 

19900 

Business Software 

Apple Computer MaeProjecl 

159.00 

Assimilation Process 


Business Essentials 

49.00 

Cricket Software Cricket Graph 

129.00 

Dreams Of The Phoenix 


Day Keeper Calendar 

27.00 

Human Edge Software 


The Communications Edge 

57 00 

The Management Edge or 


The Sales Edge 

57 00 

Negotiation Edge 

57 00 

The Mind Prober 

28,00 

Lotus jazj { Vers/on IA) 

269.00 

Mainstay 


MacFlow (Flowchart Design 


& Documentation) 

65,00 

Micro Planning Software 


Micro Planner Plus 

299 00 

Microsoft Microsoft Works 

179 00 

Microsoft Muftiplan i.i 

105.00 

Microsoft Chart i 0 

72,00 

Microsoft Excel 1.0 

225,00 

Muftiplen to Excel upgrade 

150.00 

Legtsolt/NoEp press 


WiltWMMrr V2,0 


(Includes Testimonial Trust) 

32.00 

Paledln SuperCrunch 

179.00 

Satori Software Bulk Mailer 

79.00 

Soltechnics/fteitarlea Included 


Time Link 


(Time Management System) 

3200 

Word/Idea Processors 

Aegis Development 


Doug Clapp's Word Tools 

45.00 

Advanced Logic Systems 


Word Handler 

59.00 

Living Videotex! 


More (Third Generation 


Idea Processing) 

159 00 

Think Tank 512 

99.00 

Mainstay Think Now 

36 00 

Microsoft Microsoft Word 105 

111.00 

Mind Work Software MuMiWhte 

79.00 

Symmetry 


Acta (Outline Word Processor 


in DA Format) 

39.00 

Target Software 


Voile? (Full Featured 


Desk Accessory Outtinor) 

53.00 

T/Maker Company WnleNow 

Cali 

Spelling Checkers 

A.L.R, Systems 


Mac Proof V2.Q (Spelling, 


Style. & Grammar Checker) 

129.00 

Assimilation Process 


Mac Spell Right or The Rig hi Word 

49 00 

Creighton Development MacSpeii-^ 

55 00 

EnterSet, Inc MacGss 

55 00 

Hayden Software Hayden: Spelter 

26.00 

Greene, Johnson Int. Spell swell 

45,00 


Accounting Packages 


BP I 

BPl Entry Series-General Accounting 225.00 

Chang Labs 

Rags to Riches GL, AR. or AP 59.00 

Rags lo Riches Three Fack-GL/AH/AF* 249.00 

Conllnenlal/Arrayt 

The Home Accountant 52.00 

Digital, Etc. Turbo Maccountant 269,00 

Maccountant V2.0 99 00 

Future Design Soltwarc 
Strictly Business Accounting System: 

Module 1 - General Ledger 199.00 

Monogram Dollars & Sense 6100 

Open Systems Open For Business II 499 00 
Palantir GL. AR, or Inventory Control 5900 

Peachtree 

General Ledger or Accounts Receivable 59 00 
Accounts Payable 89.00 

Sierra On-Line MacOneWrile GL Or Aft 79.00 

MacQneWrite Cash Disbursements 79.00 


Statistics Packages 


Brainpower StatView 65.00 

SiaiView 512 Plus 179.00 

Cricket Software Statworks 79.00 

Northwest Analytical NWA StatPak 229.00 

NWA Quality Analyst 299.00 

StatSoft StatFasl-2 75 00 

Systal Systat (Version 3.0) 459.00 


Graphics Software 


Anaya Corp. Fontestlc 25.00 

Ann Arbor Soltworks Full Paint 
(Un-Protected, includes Co lor Print) 59,00 

Sroderbunti Prim Shop 49.00 

ToyShop 41.00 

Co&ady Company 

Fluent Fonts (Two-Disk Sof) 29 00 

Fluent Laser Fonts 49 00 

Choice ol. Sodom. Sanserif, 

Rite £ Right Bank, Monterey, 

Cahgrephy & Regency, or Prelude 

Desktop Graphics DrawArl 29.00 

Dubl-Click Software 
World Class Fonts Volume l 
(Three Disk Set) 29 00 

World Class Fonts Volume II 
f Three Disk Set) 29 00 

EDO Comm un lea hong 

LaserWorks /Version t.2) 239.00 

Hayden VideoWorks 59 00 

Da Vinci: Building Blocks 52.00 

DaVinci: Commercial interiors 119.00 

Innovative Date Design 

Paste-Ease (Volumes t & H) 36.00 

I7D Designs ColorPrinl Software Only 25.00 

CotorPrinl Starter Kit-3 39.00 

MicraBpol MacPalette 52.00 

Miles Computing 

Mac The Kni r e Volume III 27.00 

Mlndscape ComicWorks 52 00 

Silicon Beach Software Super Pain I 09 00 

Silicon Press 42.00 

Springboard 

Art A La Mac Vot. i -People & Places 23,00 

Art A La Mac Vat. 2-Variety Pack 23.00 

Symmetry PictureBase 48.00 

T/Maker 

Click Aft Letters or Personal Graphics 29.00 

Click Aft. Publications or Ejects 29.00 

Click Art Letters II or Click Art Holidays 29 00 
Click Art Business image 29.00 


Target Software 

MacLig hi ning 20 w/Wobsier Dictiona ry 53 DO 
Additional Thesaurus Library 26.0Q 

Medical Dictionary or Legal Dictionary 53.00 


CAD Products 


Abvent MacSpace 249.00 

Apple Computer Mac Draw 149.00 

Brainpower DesignScope 129.00 

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Desktop Publishing 


I Dreams Of The Phoenix 

Phoenix 3D Level One 

Enabling Technologies Easy 3D 
Innovative Date Design 

27 00 
6900 

Boston Software Publishers 


The MacPubliBher II 

135 00 

Mac Draft fVters/on 7,2/ 

199 00 

M&c-Hy-Phen 

69 00 

MlcroSpot MaCPIcl 

119.00 

Mac Indexer 

62.00 

MacPlOl Protesstcnal 

22400 

Man ha tl an Graphics 


Vamp. In c. Me Cad PCS 

299.00 

ReadySalGo! (Version 21) 
RcadySotGo! Desk Design 

99.00 

37.00 

Me Cad 

399.00 


Orange Micro, Inc. 

Haglime (Jntegratecf Peg® Processing) 


Overlays For Multipfan 
& Excel™ 


Apropos Financial Planning Or 
Investment Planning 45,00 

Heel Data, Irrt. 

Overlays For Multiplex. Jazz A Excel™ 

Tax Shelter Syndication Analysis 169.00 

On Schedule 119.00 

Rear Estate investment Analysis V5 0 >2500 

Financial Analysis 62.00 

Comma rcial/lndust rial Applications 52.00 

Residential Real Estate 62.00 

Overlays For Microsoft Excel™ 

Property Management Level 1 149.00 

Mortgage Dual if ier 119.00 

Listing Prospect Data Management 119 00 


Educational/Creative 

Software 


Broderbund Geometry 62 00 

Davidson & Associates Speed Reeder It 37 00 
Math Blaster 27.00 

Electronic Arts Pinball Construction Set 27.00 
Deluxe Music Construction Set 32 00 

First Byte Kid Talk dr Speller Bee 42 00 

Math Talk 42 00 

First Shapes 32 00 

Greet Wave Software 

ConcertWare Plus 5200 

Cuncertware MIDI 9900 

KidsTime 32.00 

Hayden MusicWorks 32 00 

Score Improvement System lor the SAT 59.00 
Score I improvement-Achievement Tests 59.00 
KetJe Group Studio Session 69.00 

Micro; Maps MacAftas Volume i or 2 49.00 


Microsoft Hands On Excel 

32 00 

Learning Multiplan 6 Chart 

3900 

Mind scape Rerfecl Score SAT 

47.00 

The Lucher Profile 

24.00 

Palanilr 


MacType, MalhFlash or WordPlay 

26.00 

Queue Intellectual Software 


Islpl Like The Others 

36.00 

How Many? or Early Header 

25.00 

Whal Comes Next? 

35.00 

Reading & Thinking 1 or II 

39.00 

Vocabulary Adventure 1 or tl 

44.00 

Spanish Grammar 1, M. or III 

25.00 

World Geography Advenlure 1 or II 

44 00 

US, Geography Adventure 

44 00 

How A Bill Becomes A Law 

44.00 

American History Adventure 

44 00 

Starting A Now Business 

44.00 

Analogies 1 or 11 

49 00 

College Aptitude Reading Exercises 

49 00 

Rubicon Publishing Dinner at Eight 

35O0 

Silver Palate Collection 

29 00 

Dmner at Eigni-Stlver Palate Bundle 

59 00 

Simon 6 Schuster Mac Art Depl. 

24 00 

Typing Tutor (II 

3500 

1 Paper Airplane Construction Set 

24 00 

Software Concepts 


Concepts Computerized Allas 

4500 

Springboard 


Early Games lor Young Children 

31,00 

Easy as ABC 

31.00 

TMnk Educational 


MacEdge H or Mind Over Mac 

26 00 


Game Software 


Activision Borrowed Time or Hacker 

27 00 

Mmdshadow or Shanghai 

27 00 

Championship Star League Baseball 

22 00 

Alter Ego (Mala or Female Version! 

36 00 

Arlworx Bridge 4.0 

21 00 

Brodorbund Ancient Art ol War 

27 00 

Bullsnye Software 


Fokker TriPlane Flight Simulator 

3500 

Electronic Arts ChessM aster 2000 

2800 

Dr. J 3 Larry Bird go One-On-One 

2700 

SkyFcx or Archon 

27.00 

Golden Oldies vol. i 

2400 

EPYJt Winter Games or Rogue 

24 00 

Temple ol Apshjn Trilogy 

24,00 

Hayden Software Sargon HI 

29.00 

Infinity Software. LTD 


Grand Slam Tennis 

32 00 

Infocom A Mmd Forever voyaging 

26 00 

Cutthroats, Enchanter, or Ballyhoo 

23 00 

Dea dtine or Starcruss 

29 00 

Hilchhiker’s Guide or Zork I 

23.00 

Infidel, Zcrk II or Zork 111 

2600 

Pianetiaii, Seastaiker or Trinity 

23,00 

Sorcerer or Suspect 

26,00 

Suspended or Spciibreaker 

29,00 

Wishbringer or Witness 

23.00 

Invisiclues-Hint Booklets (ea.) 

6.O0 

Microsoft 


Flight Simulator (Version 1.0) 

33.0O 

Mlndscspe Balance ol Power 

30 00 

Crossword Magic 

30 00 

Depa Vu: A Nightmare Comes True 

3300 

James Bond 007: A View To Kill 

24 00 

James Bond 007: Goldfinger 

24.00 

Racier or The Hailey Project 

27.00 

Rambo: First Blood Pari II 

24 00 

Stephen King's: The Mist 

24,00 

The Uninvited 

3000 

Omnltrend Software 


Omniirend's Universe It 

39 00 

Origin Systems Exodus: Utlima 111 

36 00 

PBI Software 


Strategic Conquest IJ 


(Multi-Player War Game) 

39-00 

Poterware 


Pen sale, Transylvania, or 


Sword Ol Kadash 

15.00 

kyphus, Coveted Mirror. Crimson 


Crown, or Oo^Topos 

1500 

Practical Computer Applications 


MacGoif (Version 20) 

36 00 

Psion 


Psion Chess (3D A Multi-Ungual) 

31 OO 

Q Ware, Inc, OrbQuest 

35 00 

Silicon Beach Software 


Enchanted Scepters 

21,00 

Dark Castle 

31 00 

World Builder 

52 00 

Simon A Schuster 


Star Trek (The Koteyeshi Adventure) 

24.O0 

SlF’Tech Mac Wizardry 

36 00 

Spectrum Holabyte GATO 

26 00 

Orb iter 

27,00 

Vldex MacGammon & Cribbage 

2800 

MacVegas 

34O0 

Disk Drives/Hard Disks/ 

Upgrades 



AST Research 

AST-2000 1959 00 

20 MB External Hard Disk wrfft 
20-MB Cartridge-Tape Backup 
tor the Macintosh Plus. 

AST- 4000 4599.00 

74 MB External Herd Disk wrtb 
60 -MB Cartridge-Tape Backup 
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Smartmodem 1200 Mac w/Smartcom II 

429.00 

Smartmodem 2400 

579.00 

Transet 1000-128K 

269 00 

Transet 1000-512K 

359.00 

Transet 1000 Mac Accessory Kit 

31.00 

Prentice 


Popcorn X-100 Modem w/Straightalk 

259 00 

Prometheus 


Promodem 1200M w/ProCom-M 

299 00 

U.S. Robotics Password 1200 

199 00 

Courier 2400 

389 00 

Printers 

Brother 


HR-15XL (20cps) Daisywheel/Serial 

31900 

HR-25 (23cps) Daisywheel/Serial 

519.00 

HR-35 (35cps) Daisywheel/Serial 

729.00 

TwinWriter 5 Dual Head Printer/Serial 

839.00 

Juki 


6100 (18cps) Daisywheel Serial 

37900 

6200 (30cps) Daisywheel Serial 

559.00 

6300 (40cps) Daisywheel Serial 

659.00 

Okldata 


ML-192 Apple Mac/Lisa 

389 00 

ML-193 Apple Mac/Lisa 

55900 

Toshiba 


P-321 24 Pin (216cps) Par /Set 10" 

499.00 

P-341 24 Pin (216cps) Par /Ser. 10" 

799.00 

P-351 24 Pin (288cps) Par./Ser. 15“ 

1079.00 

Blank Media 

Single Sided 3%" Diskettes 


BASF 3’4” SS/DD Disks (box of 5) 

10.00 

Bulk (Sony) 3’/," SS/DD Disks (10) 

15.00 

Sony 3V SS/DD Disks (box of 10) 

17.00 

Centech 3y 2 ” SS/OD Color Disks 


(box of 10) 

18.00 

Fuji 3%” SS/DD Disks (box of 10) 

18.00 

Maxell 3V SS/DD Disks (box of 10) 

18.00 

Verbatim 3%“ SS/DD Disks (box of 10) 

1800 

3M 3'4" SS/DD Disks (box of 10) 

20 00 

C.ltoh Color Disks SS/DD (box of 10) 

21.00 

Double Sided 3%" Diskettes 


BASF 3%" DS/DD Disks (box of 5) 

14.00 

Bulk (Sony) 3%" DS/DD (10) 

2400 

Centech 3y 2 ” DS/DD Color Disks 


(box of 10) 

24 00 

Sony 3ft” DS/DD Disks (box of 10) 

27 00 

Fuji 3%” DS/DD Disks (box of 10) 

26.00 

Maxoil 3'h" DS/DD Disks (box of 10) 

28.00 

Verbatim 3\£j” DS/DD Disks (box ol 10) 

2800 

3M 3 V DS/DD Disks (box ol 10) 

2800 

C.ltoh Color Disks DS/DD (box of 10) 

29 00 

Digitizers 


579.00 


359.00 


579.00 


1869 00 


2399 00 
48.00 
69.00 


789.00 


1589.00 


399 00 


559.00 


229.00 


Dove Computer Corporation 
MacSnap Model 115 
(128K to 1MB Upgrade) 

MacSnap Model 524 
(512K to 1MB Upgrade) 

MacSnap Model 548 
(S12K to 2MB Upgrade) 

Iomega 

Bernoulli Box 2-10MB for 
MacPIus SCSI 
Bernoulli Box 2-20MB for 
MacPIus SCSI 
10MB Cartridge 
Head Cleaning Kit 
LoDOWN 

Hard Disks & Tape Backups for the MacPIus 
LoDown 20/20 Combo 
(20 MB Hard Disk w/20MB Tape) 1439.00 

LoDown-T20 

(20 Megabyte Tape Drive) 

LoDown-T60 

(60 Megabyte Tape Drive) 

LoDown-20 (20 Megabyte Hard Disk) 889 00 
LoDown-40 (40 Megabyte Hard Disk) 1699 00 
LoDown-80 (80 Megabyte Hard Disk) 3399.00 
MacMemory, Inc. 

The MaxPlus (2MB Upgrade 
w/MaxRam/Max Print/MaxChill) 

The MaxPlus Enhanced (2.5MB 
w/MaxRam/Max Print/MaxChill) 

MDIdeas, Inc. 

HD-20 (20MB Hard Disk For MacPIus) 899 00 
HD-30 (30MB Hard Disk For MacPIus) 1299.00 
TDBK-20+ 

(22MB Cartridge Tape Backup) 879.00 

MICAH 

Advanced Technology Internal Hard Disk 
Systems for the Macintosh & Macintosh Plus. 
MicahDrive 30MB External Hard Drive 929.00 

MicahDrive AT 20 Internal Hard Drive 1159.00 
MicahMemory 2/4 Card. (2MB Ram) 399.00 

Microtech 

Auto-Eiect Drive with 1 Year Warrantee 
MAC535-20 800KB External Drive 239.00 

Mirror Technologies 
Magnum BOOK External Drive 
MagNet 20 (Internal 20MB 
Hard Drive) 

MagNet 30X (External 30MB 
Hard Drive) 

MagNet 30X (External 30MB 
with FastPort) 

MagNet 40/40 (40MB w/40MB Tape) 2595.00 

Magnum Tape 20 (20MB Tape Backup) 929.00 
Peachtree Technology 
S20+ (20MB lor MacPIus SCSI) 

Peak Systems 
Plus-20 (20MB SCSI Drive) 

Plus-30 (30MB SCSI Drive) 

Plus-45 (45MB SCSI Drive) 

Plus-20T (20MB Tape Backup) 

Sierra (20MB Drive with 40MB Tape) 1719.00 
Sierra XL (30MB Drive 
with 40MB Tape) 

Peripheral Land 

PL 20 -21MB Formatted for MacPIus 
PL 30 -32MB Formatted for MacPIus 
MacFast 20-21 MB w/Tape Controller 
for Mac 512K or MacPIus 
MacFast 3 0-32MB w/Tape Controller 
for Mac 512K or MacPIus 
MacBack 20 -27MB Tape Backup 
MacStor 10-TOMB Removable 
Cartridge Hard Disk 
10MB Removable Cartridges 
for MacStor 10 

Mac Port Plus Host Adaptor-SCS/ 

Interface for Mac 512K 
Personal Computer Peripherals 
MacBottom Hard Disk 20MB 
(MacPIus SCSI) 

PKI McD 800K External Drive 
ProAPP 

World s Fastest High-Capacity 
MacPIus SCSI Hard Disk System: 

ProAPP 40S Hard Disk System 
(Sub-30msec. Voice Coil Technology) Call 
ProAPP 20MB Hard Disk System 
(Mac 128K,512K,MacPIus SCSI) Call 

Trlmar, USA 

Generic 20 External SCSI Hard Drive 979.00 

Unlvatlon 

MacSIimUne Hard Drives with Crash Protection 


1095 00 


995.00 


1095.00 


899 00 


799 00 
969.00 
1299 00 
639 00 


1859.00 


839 00 
1099.00 


979 00 


1259.00 
799 00 


1739.00 


135.00 


159 00 


869 00 
189.00 


1- 10MB Removable Hard Disk 

2- 10MB Removable Hard Disk 
30MB Fixed Hard Drive Only 
40MB Fixed Hard Drive Only 
20MB Fixed with 10MB Removable 

or 40MB Tape Backup 
30MB Fixed with 10MB Removable 
or 40MB Tape Backup 
40MB Fixed with 10MB Removable 
or 40MB Tape Backup 
Western Automation Labs 
Dasch External RAMdisk (512KB) 
Dasch External RAMdisk (1024KB) 
Dasch External RAMdisk (2048KB) 


1749 00 
2749.00 
1529 00 
2169 00 


235900 


299 00 
339 00 
399.00 


Modems 


Anchor Automation 

Signalman Express 1200 Baud 235 00 

Signalman Lightning 2400 Baud 355.00 

Hayes Microcomputing Interbridge 549 00 

Smartmodem 1200 369.00 


Kette Group 

Capture any sound from the real world 1 
MacNifty Audio Digitizer w/SoundCap 

Koala Technologies Corp. 

KAT Graphics Tablet 
MacVision 

Magnum 

Natural Sound Cable & Editor 
Sound Effects 
New Image Technology 
Magic Digitizer 
Summagraphlcs 
MacTablet 6x9 size 
MacTablet 12x12 size 
ThunderWare 

Thunderscan V3.2 (Mac 128 6 512K) 
MacPIus Power Accessory 
Thunderscan to MacPIus Adapter Cable 


135.00 
169 00 


89.00 

26.00 


259 00 
35900 


175.00 
29 00 
18.00 


1000 

14.00 

14.00 

29.00 

5900 

4500 

49.00 

49.00 


1400 


Innovative Technology 

The Pocket Pack (holds 6 disks) 

The Easel (holds 20 disks) 

The Pyramid 
The Library 

I/O Design MacPIus Carrying Case 
ImageWriter Carrying Case 
ImageWriter 11 Carrying Case 
ImageWriter Wide Carrying Case 
Kalmar Designs 
Teakwood Roll- Top Disk Cases 
Micro Cabinet (holds 45 3'h" disks) 

Double Micro Cabinet 
(holds 60 3'h " disks) 21.00 

Kensington System Saver Mac 65.00 

A/B Box (Specify Mac or MacPIus) 62 00 

Disk Case (holds 36 Mac disks) 19 00 

Traveling Disk Case 8 00 

Disk Drive Cleaning Kit 19.00 

External Disk Drive Cover 8 00 

ImageWriter or ImageWriter II Cover 9 00 

Macintosh Dust Cover 9.00 

Mouse Cleaning Kit w/Pocket 16.00 

Mouse Pocket 8 00 

Circular Polarizing Filter 31.00 

Starter Pack (includes Tilt/Swivel) 53.00 

Surge Protector 35.00 

Tilt/Swivel 22.00 

Control Center 62.00 

PrinterStand 17.00 

Ketlc Group 

MacNifty Joystick Convertor 35.00 

MacNifty Stereo Music System MNS-200 75.00 
MacNifty Stereo Music System 
MNS-300 (Dolby.Bass,Treble) 99 00 

MacNifty A/B Switch 25.00 

MacNifty A/B/C/D Switch 39.00 

Kraft OuickStick III 49.00 

MacMemory. Inc. MaxChill 39.00 

Moustrak MousePad 7" x 9 'Size 8 00 

MousePad 9"x11" Size 9 00 

MPH Computer Products 
MAC-8-COOL 99 00 

N J Products Inc. 

MacPIus to ImageWriter II Cable (6 feet) 19 00 
MacPIus to DB-9 Adaptor Cable 19 00 

MacPIus to SCSI Drive Cable 24.00 

Optimum Computer Luggage 
MacTote Mac Carry Case 60.00 

PrintTote ImageWriter II Carry Case 60.00 

Ribbons Unlimited 

Available in Black. Blue. Brown. Green, 

Orange. Purple. Red. Yellow, Silver & Gold 
ImageWriter Ribbon-Black 4 50 

ImageWriter Ribbon-Color 5 00 

ImageWriter Rainbow Pack (6 Colors) 27 00 
ImageWriter 11-4 Color Ribbon 6 95 

Smith & Bellows 

Hand Crafted Mahogany Disk Case: 

Holds up to 90 Diskettes 27.00 

Hand Crafted Basswood Disk Case: 

Holds up to 90 Diskettes 

(Natural or Stain) 19.00 


Systems Control 

MacGard Surge Suppressor 
Video 7 Mouse Stick 
X-10 (USA) Inc. 

X-10 Powerhouse Computer Interface 
Extra Modules (For Lamps, Wall 
Switches, & Appliances) 


55.00 

42.00 


Books 

Microsoft Press 


Creative Programming in 


Microsoft Basic 

14.00 

Excel in Business 

1800 

Inside MacPaint 

14.00 

Macintosh Midnight Madness 

1400 

MacWork/MacPIay 

14.00 

Microsoft Macmations 

1600 

Microsoft Multiplan Of Mice and Menus 

13.00 

Presentation Graphics on Macintosh 

14.00 

The Apple Macintosh Book Vol. 2 

15.00 

The Printed Word 

14.00 

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Our Policy — We do not guarantee machine 
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Defective software will be replaced by the same 
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A.M. Products 


3%” Head & Computer Cleaning Kit 

18.00 

Assimilation Process 


Numeric Turbo 

129.00 

Mac Turbo Touch 

79.00 

Bech-Tech Fanny Mac 

7900 

Curtis Manufacturing 


Diamond-Surge Suppressor-SPl 

29 00 

Emerald-Surge Suppressor-SP2 

36 00 

Ruby-Surge Suppressor-SPF-2 

55 00 

Sapphire-Surge Suppressor-SPF-1 

47 00 

Diversions, Inc. 


Underware Ribbon 

900 

Underware Color Pens-Small 

1000 

Underware Color Pens-Large 

13.00 

Environmental Software Company 


MacAttire: Available m Navy-Blue. 


Burgundy, or Silver-Gray. 


External Drive or Keypad Cover 

7.00 

ImageWriter II Cover 

11.00 

Wide ImageWriter Cover 

13.00 

Mac & KeyBoard Cover 

1500 

MacPIus & Keyboard Cover 

15 00 

MacPIus. HD-20, & Keyboard Cover 

1800 

LazerWriter Cover 

17.00 

Ergotron 


MacTilt 


(Mac 128/512K or MacPIus Version) 

75.00 

MacBuffer 256K 

249.00 

MacBuffer 512K 

369 00 

MacBuffer 1024K 

569 00 

Innovative Concepts 


Flip ’n’ File/Micro 

9.00 

Flip *n’ File 11/Micro 

1800 



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THE TOY SHOP UU 

List Price: $64.95. Published by Broder- 
bund Software, 17 Paul Drive, San Rafael , 
CA 94903. (415) 479-1170. Runs on 
128K copy protected. 



The Toy Shop is a unique bit of software, 
a construction kit whose end result is an 
actual physical model, not just an image on 
a computer monitor The Toy Shop rs not for 
everyone, (it's not even for kids, exactly), 
but it s perfect for people who like to build 


model cars, planes or other toys. 

The Toy Shop consists of three disks, a 
program disk and two very full data disks. 
The data disks contain extraordinarily de¬ 
tailed design fifes for 20 different toys, 
ranging from a simple spinning glider to a 
working steam engine. The simplest toys 
have only one page of densely packed 
graphics, while the most complex models 
require as many as five full pages. 

The program screen displays a scrolling, 
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picture of the finished toy and carries a 
brief description. The toys begin with a 
complete design that includes paint pat¬ 
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can be edited to customize the toy, al¬ 
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results when you print the toy file. 

When you have finished editing a toy, you 
print it out on any paper that your printer 
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colored stock or even foil. You then glue the 
printout to card stock, cut out the pieces 


and assemble the toy. The kit includes 
building materials — heavy card stock, 
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for one of each of the models. Replace¬ 
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toys that can be built. 

The manual gives very clear and detailed 
instructions for every step in the process, 
but most of the toys are too complex for a 
child to buifd, The program is intended to 
be used either by an adult or an older child 
with considerable model building experi¬ 
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ages, though, and are very durable. 

The toys all work. Turn a hand crank on 
the carousel for example and the horses 
actually go up and down as the carousel 
goes round and round. Some of the toys 
are balloon powered and others can be 
driven by the steam engine. 

The Toy Shop would be a little easier to 
use if you could make changes directly to 
the toy itself, but it provides a wonder- 
fu I workshop for do-it-yourselfers, — MOW 


FILEMAKER PLUS 


List Price: $295. Published by Forethought, 
tnc ., 250 Sobrante Way, Sunnyvale , CA 
94086. (415) 737-7070. Requires 512K+. 
Not copy protected. 

FileMaker , an excellent, forms-based 
filing system, has been around for some 
time, and has attracted a wide following, its 
users appreciate its ease of use and flexi¬ 
bility, but many have requested more fea¬ 
tures. In response primarily to the com¬ 
ments of users, Forethought has created a 
new product, FileMaker Plus. 

FileMaker Plus retains all the features of 
FileMaker so anyone who has been using 
the original product will feel very much at 
home with the new one and will be able to 
access all existing F/teMaker data. But 
FileMaker Pius is much more than an up¬ 
grade product. Besides incorporating some 
basic design enhancements, FileMaker 
Plus enters a whole new arena by adding 
features that have previously been the ex¬ 
clusive domain of complex relational data¬ 
bases. 



As with FileMaker , all fields are automati¬ 
cally indexed so there is no need to bother 
with key fields and searching on any criteri¬ 
on is very fast. Fields can be formatted to 
hold multiple values, such as line items on 
an invoice. FileMaker Plus also lets you 
examine multiple records on screen in a 
"list" view and scan quickly from record to 
record, 

FileMaker Plus will display up to eight 
files at a time, and can use a spreadsheet- 
style "lookup" command in one file to 
retrieve data from another file. While not 
fully relational, this feature does make it 


easy to draw data from a parts file for 
inclusion in an invoice. FileMaker Plus also 
has enhanced calculation capabilities with 
many additional functions. 

Another aspect of FileMaker Plus that 
treads on the territory of relational data¬ 
bases is the use of "scripts," FileMaker 
Plus scripts resemble a macro language, 
except that they require no direct program¬ 
ming or recording — they simpiy remember 
a sequence of actions, can be saved and 
used at any time to automate the same 
sequence- 

improved printing functions let users 
generate flexible headers and footers. Us¬ 
ers can a iso manually enter the dimensions 
of the paper they will be printing on and 
print multiple records across a page for 
mailing labels. 

FileMaker Plus is fully NFS and Mac Plus 
compatible, includes a thorough on-line 
help file and has a very clear manual, 
FileMaker Plus incorporates a multitude of 
new features and enhancements beyond 
those mentioned here. The result is an 
outstanding product made better and a new 
product designed to meet the needs of a 
wider range of database users. — MOW 


MARKET PRO UU 

List Price: $395. Published by Pro Plus 
Software , Jna, 2830 E. Brown Road , Suite 
C-12. Mesa , AZ 85203. (800) 992-2919 . 
Requires 512K-F r external drive and Hayes- 
compatible modem. Not copy protected . 

Market Pro is a slick, quick portfolio 
management program of formidibie propor¬ 
tions. Commodities, stocks, options, 
bonds, currency and money markets can be 
followed from both technical and funda¬ 
mental points of view. The ease of use of 
this program is startling. 


Market Pro utilizes a built-in telecom¬ 
munications (download only) tool in order to 
obtain data from CSL Data Corp., which is 
connected to LP. Sharp/lnfoservice of Van¬ 
couver, BC. This is a highly efficient data¬ 
base for the purpose of downloading mar¬ 
ket quotes and fundamental data. The 
system operates flawlessly and performs at 
least four times faster than Merlin Dial- 
/Data. Users are charged for each quote 
received, so the cost between the two 
databases is similar, but using CSL is much 
quicker. It is possible to manually add data 
to a file, and you may choose to download 
data from Dow Jones Retrieval Service, 


Chancery Software, the program's actual 
authors, provide technical support through 
a toll-free number. However, little support 
is likely to be needed, because of the 
thoughtfulness and attention to detail in¬ 
herent in the program's interface. 

Market Pro is very strong on fundamental 
analysis. Users may select among approxi¬ 
mately 160 facts for any year and any 
quarterly period and may also combine 
these facts. Thus you can define formulas 
or ratios which the program will check for 
validity. Once the fundamental data is ob¬ 
tained It can be sorted, charted and printed 
in various ways. It also can be saved as a 


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QUICK CLICKS 

SYLK file for use in Excel or Multiplan , 
although such files cannot be ported back 
into Market Pro. 

There is one limitation in the area of 
fundamentals. You cannot add additional 
fundamental categories of data to an es¬ 
tablished file, requiring that new files be 
established for any afterthoughts. There is 
a similar lack of integration of portfolio 
files in the technical area. If the same stock 
is listed In two portfolios, updating data in 
one will not automatically add the new 
technical data to the other portfolio. In the 
technical area you can avoid this limitation 
as you can cut and paste investments 
between technical files. This cannot be 
done between the fundamental files. 

Unique to Market Pro is Its 'Prospector 1 ’ 
feature, which permits you to search the 
database for companies which meet your 
specified fundamental criteria. 

In the technical arena, stocks can be 
charted instantaneously. Various moving 
averages, volume, momentum and advance 
/decline lines are provided for up to the 
last 250 days, daily or monthly. The speed 


with which you can move between each 
stock and each chart is remarkable. You 
can superimpose several graphs on your 
charts, each written with a different pen, 
with a good selection offered. For most 



investors the technical data accessible in 
Market Pro will be more than adequate. 
Professional technicians, however, may 
not find sufficient technical versatility in 
this program. Some important charts, such 
as point and figure charts, are not avail¬ 


able, And you cannot access weekly data or 
any data prior to the last 250 days. Unfortu¬ 
nately for technicians, most stock quotes 
for U. S, stocks are not available through 
CSL Data until the morning after the close 
of the market. Of course, Dow Jones is 
likely to be able to fill that gap. In spite of 
these drawbacks, some technicians may 
prefer to utilize this program for their basic 
charting, perhaps to supplement another 
program, because of the speed, beauty and 
flawless operation of this application. 

Market Pro provides an automatic update 
of the monetary value of your portfolio and 
the percentage of gain/ioss since purchase 
date of each investment. The program 
prints data in an organized fashion, provid¬ 
ing both details and summaries of your 
investment positions. 

Although it has far too many typos, the 
manual is comprehensive. It provides a 
good summary of technical and fundamen¬ 
tal issues for the beginner and covers in a 
cogent manner what users need to learn in 
order to utilize the unique features of Mar¬ 
ket Pro. — Linda Joan Kaplan 


MAZEWARS+ till 

L;st Price , $49.95. Published by Macro- 
Mintl r inc. r 1029 w . Wolfram, Chicago , it 
60657 . (312) 871-0987 . Requires 512K+, 
AppleTaik network or 1200-baud , Hayes- 
compatible modem. Not copy protected. 



When AppleTalk was first introduced, Ap¬ 
ple's Bert Sloane wrote and released (into 
the public domain) the first game specifi¬ 
cally designed for multiplayer use on an 
AppleTalk network. That version of 
Maze Wars enjoyed a brief spurt of populari¬ 


ty, but not lasting success, since people 
with AppleTalk networks were usually too 
busy LaserWriting to stop and play games. 
MacroMind has taken the original idea a 
step further, added a number of unique 
features, spruced up the action with some 
Video Works animation, and released the 
first commercial AppleTalk game, 
Maze Wars+. 

MazeWar$+ can be played In three differ¬ 
ent ways: through AppleTalk, as in the 
original version; over telephone lines, using 
modems; and in single player mode against 
the computer. The premise of the game is 
simple: You are a character in either a one- 
or four-level maze, and together with your 
remote-controlled robot friend (or enemy), 
you must fight your way through waves of 
attacking opponents. Those opponents are 
other players on the network, or a friend on 
the other end of a modem link. 

Each player chooses a character type 
(yellow cab, Macintosh, boot, eyeball and 
others) and a type of robot (does it follow 
your orders, or will it be a blind, ruthless 
killer that destroys whatever gets in its way, 
including you?). Both overhead and head- 
on three-dimensional views help keep the 
enemy in sight, as well as monitor your own 


position. Player movement can be accom¬ 
plished through either the mouse or the 
keyboard, and the response time is incred¬ 
ibly fast .even when communicating through 
modems. When an opponent is in sight, 
press the space bar to launch an animated 
missile, which explodes in a cloud of smoke 
upon impact. During the course of the 
game, messages can be sent to other 
players; for example, to thank them for 
blowing your character to smithereens. Var¬ 
ious status windows keep players informed 
of what player is on what maze level, what 
messages are being sent to you from other 
players, and your current score. 

MazeWars+ has an unusual licensing 
agreement: You're allowed to give one copy 
of the program to a friend, in order to have 
someone to play it with. An extra printed 
disk label is even enclosed for the copy. 
Although it can get a bit dizzying coord mat¬ 
ing everything that can be controlled, the 
game can become quite addicting once you 
have the hang of it. If you want a game to 
play solo, there are better choices than 
MazeWars+. If you want some entertain¬ 
ment for an AppleTalk bash, or want to have 
fun with a modem friend. Maze Wars + is the 
only game in town. — DS 


GRAND SLAM 4444 

List Price: $49.95 , Published by Infinity 
Software, 1331 61st Sc., Suite F f Emery¬ 
ville , CA 94608 , (415J 420-1551 , Requires 
512K, runs on Mac Pius. Copy protected. 
Version 1.1 reviewed. 


Grand S/am started life as a simple 
tennis game with initial programming done 
by MacroMind (Mus/cWorks, An Grabber ; 
Video Works, etc*). But Tom Maremaa, a 


former professional tennis player, took the 
product over and decided to create a true 
tennis simulation. The result is a game that 
in many ways approaches the feel and look 
of a live tennis match, and is filled with 
more than enough fun to justify spending 
an entire afternoon playing tennis instead 
of working. 

Four Mac-controlled "robot" players, all 
with different styles of play, are designed 
into the game. Although it would have been 
nice to have the robots represent actual 
professional tennis players, the legal and 


financial complications of doing so would 
have prevented the game from ever being 
finished. Instead, the four players have 
styles similar to some current world-ranked 
competitors but with names like Demon, 
Warrior and Chiphead, 

Grand S/am can be played in two modes: 
practice or tournament. In practice mode 
the effects of court surface (clay, grass, 
asphalt), racket tension and type (wood, 
metal, graphite) can be guaged and the 
differing talents of the four robots evaluat¬ 
ed without the pressure of scoring. You can 


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also experiment with keyboard controls that 
add slice or topspin to a shot, send a lob 
over your opponent's head or a smash 
(figuratively) down his throat. (Yes, I meant 
his: the initial version of the game, at least, 
is all male.) 

In tournament mode, the game records 
each point and scores a match as the best 
of three sets. The tournament draw is 
generated randomly each time a tourna¬ 
ment is started. The name Grand Slam 
comes from the series of four major tourna¬ 
ments on the professional tour. Wimbledon 
and the French, US and Australian open 
competitions. Because of different playing 


surfaces, each tournament requires a 
unique set of tactics in order to compete 
successfully. 

Grand Slam incorporates digitized sound, 
for ball bounces and shots and crowd 
noise, and some fairly sophisticated anima¬ 
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the disk is completely full because of the 
graphics and sound information. 

In general, once you learn how to control 
the players' movements with a mouse, 
the game plays very well. The graph¬ 
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sometimes difficult to tell exactly what will 
happen on a given stroke. Even so. Grand 



Slam succeeds both as a simulation and a 
highly addictive game. — MOW 


FLASHBACK Hi 

List Price: $59.95. Published by Mainstay. 
28611B Canwood St.. Agoura Hills, CA 
91301. (818) 991-6540. Not copy protect¬ 
ed. 



Now that cheap hard disks are a reality 
for the Macintosh Plus, a race is on to 
provide utilities to backup all the expensive 
information that lives on those discount 


devices. Each program has a different way 
of letting the user specify which files are to 
be backed up, and which are to be ignored. 
FlashBack's approach to this selection task 
should appeal to first time hard disk owners 
as well as more seasoned users. 

Once in FlashBack. the user is presented 
with various on-screen controls for deter¬ 
mining which files are to be backed up onto 
floppy. Applications can be ignored (this is 
the default setting), since they aren't likely 
to change on a regular basis. The user can 
specify a time range {files changed within 
the last x days) for file selection. The 
primary device for selecting files is the 
Selection window, which displays a graphic 
tree of the HFS directory. Folders and sub¬ 
folders are specified by clicking on them 
with the mouse. This feature will particular¬ 
ly appeal to HFS newcomers, as it clearly 
defines the structure of an HFS directory. 
The tree can also be printed out, with or 
without individual file names. We ran into a 
LaserWriter bug when attempting to print 
the tree with file names (this was the only 
bug that surfaced). A useful command 


reads the directory and determines how 
many single-or double-sided floppies are 
needed for the backup. 

Once the files to be backed up are 
specified, the program prompts the user to 
begin inserting floppies. The program can 
be set to verify disks that are already 
formatted to ensure media integrity. While 
the backup is in progress, folder and file 
names appear in a window as they are 
written to floppy. The amount of total infor¬ 
mation pocessed is also displayed. A con¬ 
trol can be toggled to ask the user for 
backup verification on a folder-by-folder or 
file-by-file basis. 

FlashBack backs up files larger than 
800K, which is necessary for large System 
files, spreadsheets, text, graphics and ani¬ 
mation files. Files are saved to floppy in a 
compressed format, to minimize storage 
space. The backup and restore process is 
also reasonably fast (about 1 megabyte per 
minute, about twice that speed to restore 
the files onto the hard disk). All in all, 
FlashBack is a good candidate to secure 
the contents on your hard disk. — DB 


GRIDMAKER Hi 

List Price: $49. Published by FolkStone 
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Some programs claim to do the world, 
and then some. Some programs actually 
live up to their claims, others don't. Grid- 
Maker makes one claim: it easily and quick¬ 
ly produces three-dimensional perspective 
grids to use as guides when drawing to 
perspective. Nothing more, nothing less. It 
delivers well on that promise. 

GridMaker’s main window (also its only 
window) displays a set of XYZ axis lines 
when the program is first opened. Above it 
is a smaller set of lines, the alignment 
mark, which displays the three-dimensional 
orientation of any type of shape that is 
drawn in the program. The shapes are really 
the meat of the program: they represent 
different stages of a three-dimensional 
box. The bottom of the box represents a 
two-dimensional plane with depth. Three 


sides of the box constitute a corner shape. 
The full box would be three-dimensional 
and opaque, while the box and corner 
represent a translucent cube. The user can 
specify the grid line density: at the lowest 
setting, all that is drawn is the shape's 


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outline, while at highest density, the grid 
lines are very tightly packed. 

After the shape is drawn, it's placement, 
size and the viewing vantage point can be 
modified by manipulating the main win¬ 
dow's three scroll bars. You can position 
your vantage point to be inside of a cube 


looking out, or looking down on a corner. All 
movement is registered in ticks, and the 
axis/tick settings can be viewed on-screen 
while moving the object. The shape can 
also be stretched on any of the three axes, 
to make full screen width planes, or high 
boxes. The perspective effect can be 
changed to reflect the effects of a telepho¬ 
to lens (shape appears flat), normal eye 
(orthographic view), and wide angle (true 
perspective view). 

Grids can be copied and pasted into 
MacDraw or MacDraft. where they will exist 
as object graphics. If printed on the Laser¬ 
Writer, they will appear fully smoothed. A 
grid may also be reshaped in order to 
change its vanishing point. After using the 
grid to create a perspective drawing, it can 
be selected and deleted from the picture. 

Creating grids manually isn’t the most 
difficult endeavor known to man. Accom¬ 
plishing the task quickly and painlessly, 
with the ability to instantly change the 
number of planes and vantage point, is 
something that many artists have always 
wanted to do and couldn't. With GridMaker, 
they can. — DB ^ 


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Steven 
B o b k e r 



56MACUSER NOV EMBER 1986 


HENRIK KAM 



























POWER COMPUTING 


ONE OF THE MOST PERSISTENT 
criticisms of the Macintosh has been 
that its screen is too small. Of 
tourse, those of us who actually had 
and used Macs knew differently. The 
screen was just fine, and anyone who 
said otherwise was just a stuffy old 
IBM user. A nirpicker. The Mac's 
nearly flicker-free, high-res screen set 
new standards in sharpness, clarity 
and readability for microcomputers. 
A bigger screen was just required by 
inefficient old-technology machines. 

It turns out the critics were not 
entirely wrong. A big screen does 
make a big difference in usability. 
The Mac became the success it is 
because, in part, of its small size. But 
many more would have been sold 
more quicker if a big screen had at 
least been available as an option. Big 
screen add-ons are finally starting to 
become available. So far, most of 
them function as replacements for 
the Mac's screen. If the software has 
followed the rules, applications can 
and do take advantage of the larger 
area. The first units (for example, the 
Megascreen from Micrographic Im¬ 
ages) have been very impressive, but 
somewhat limited. Ah they offered 
was the bigger screen. And they are 
very expensive. 

BURRELL'S WIZARDRY 

A new add-on, called the Radius 
Full Pape Display (FPD), changes 
that. The FPD places a box just 
slightly larger than the Mac to either 
the left (preferred) or right side of 
the Mac. It connects to the Mac via a 
shielded cable that exits the Mac 
tlirough a connector that's mounted 
in the security slot. The Mac that is 


the master unit has to be modified 
by Radius also. The FPD is intended 
to be used with current Macs and 
Mac Pluses, While it might work 
with future Macs, open or other¬ 
wise, it’s designed for the current 
installed base. 

What you get is a new screen that 
can show a whole printed page. It’s 
640 pixels wide by 864 pixels deep. 
While a normal Mac has a pixel 
density of 72 pixels per inch, this 
screen operates at a very slightly 
greater 75 pixels per inch. That 
means that its active area is just 
about 8.5 x 11.5 inches. And since 
this is a portrait mode screen (that is, 
the longer axis is vertical) a whole 
page is visible at all times. 

If that was all the FPD did it 
would simply be another me-too 
large screen. However, it does much 
more. Its revolutionary hardware 
and firmware (ROM) design (by 
Burrell Smith and Andy Hertzfeld, 
respectively) not only gives this big 
screen a slightly higher quality than 
the Mac’s screen, but let’s you use 
the Mac’s own screen in conjunction 
with it. It operates as though there 
was no gap or space between rhe two 
physical screens. You might call the 
two separate screens one virtual 
screen. When you drag your mouse 
off the FPD display toward the Mac 
screen, it doesn't stop. If the cursor's 
position is high enough on the 
screen it simply moves right over to 
the Mac’s screen. 

You say that you need to see 20 or 
so columns of your spreadsheet ar 
once? No problem. You have 1152 
pixels to use horizontally, at least for 
the depth of the Mac screen. Click 


on the grow box and stretch out the 
window right across both screens. 
Just like that. The single window is 
on both screens, but acts as though it 
is on only one. Select a row in a 
spreadsheet and the selection area 
will highlight on both screens. 

The first time you do it or see it 
done, it's amazing. So's the next 
time. That excitement may never 
wear off. The quality of the firmware 
is staggering. So is the hardware 
design. 

If you’re thinking this is for you, 
your next thought is going to be: 
OK, how much damage to the wal¬ 
let? It's not cheap, what with its 
state-of-the-art 15-inch square tube 
monitor. List is $1995. That's a lot 
to pay to sec whole pages of your 
letters at once, but not very much if 
you routinely work with whole 
pages in page layout programs, large 
spreadsheets or large graphics. If 
your work involves lots of manual 
scrolling, the FPD will be a real 
time-saver. And working on a full 
page is different than working in 
chunks. You don't have to remember 
what was where, or do check prints 
to sec if everything is lining up OK. 
You can see it all now (if all is less 
than 8.33 x' 11.25 inches). 

FLICKER, OH FLICKER 

The Mac screen used to be as 
good as you could get on a micro. Its 
noninterlaced, high (50-megahertz) 
sweep rate design makes for a great 
screen to look at for long periods of 
time. (Normal CRTs usually use a 
sweep rate around 22 megahertz.) 
But it's not perfect (aside from the 
obvious lack of color capability!). 


PICTURE 


NOVEMBER 1986 MACUSER57 



THE BIG PICTURE 


There's “chewing flicker,* 1 for exam¬ 
ple. Haven't had it happen to you? 
Try this. Back off a few feet from the 
screen. Four or five feet is usually 
enough. Then chew, or make believe 
you’re chewing* There it goes! Did 
you see that screen flicker? Mow'd 
that happen. You didn't even touch 
the Mac. Well, maybe you have 
supernatural powers. Sure you do. 
What is really happening is that the 
motions of your jaws cause your eyes 
to get out of synch with the screen 
sweep rate, and so the screen appears 
to flicker. It’s really all in your mind. 
A higher sweep rate would help. 
Something on the order of 65 to 70 
megahertz will always prevent the 
appearance of flicker, even if you're 
far away (where the efleet is much 
more noticeable). Using newly avail¬ 
able components, the FPD achieves 
a sweep rate of 67 megahertz. And 
ends flicker. 

The CRT itself is a brand new, 
square corner design. It’s so new that 
the first circuit board prototype was 
completed before a tube was even 


available. Burrell worked it all out 
without having the actual screen on 
hand! 

ANDY'S TRICKS 

Since Andy Hertzfcld did the 
FPD’s programming, you wouldn't 
expect run-of-the-mill results. And 
the code is anything but simple or 
staid. Andy is the programming wiz¬ 
ard responsible for a lot of the 
original Mac software and firmware 
(including lots of the original ROM 
code). He's also the genius who 
created Switcher, and now is working 
on Servant, a multitasking Finder 
replacement. 

The FPD will not only include 
Andy's firmware, but also the latest 
available Servant. Eventually the 
FPD will contain a special version of 
Servant that will allow users to have 
a different menu bar on each part of 
the screen. (The normal mode of 
operation only puts a menu bar on 
the FPD portion of the screen.) 

The various options available to 
FPD users are accessed through a 


custom control panel. Here users can 
select cither a normal sized (16 pixel 
by 16 pixel) cursor or a double size 
(32 pixel by 32 pixel) cursor. The 
larger cursor is very useful, indeed, 
necessary, on the bigger screen. 

The menu bar and the type in the 
menus can also be enlarged. Having 
a larger menu bar and type makes 
these items easier to read and use. Of 
course, the standard size bar and 12- 
point type can be chosen, but they 
look small and out of proportion on 
the big screen. 

The final item on the left hand 
side of the FPD control panel adds 
zoom boxes to the windows of appli¬ 
cations that do not currently support 
this useful feature of the 128K 
ROM. Actually very few programs 
other than the Finder currently sup¬ 
port this feature, so Andy's patch is 
very handy. This feature works with 
most programs, but not with Mac¬ 
Paint. It was added because, as Andy 
said: "There was some empty space 
in the control panel and since my 
code has to take a good look at 
applications when loading diem, I 
thought I’d put this feature in. I 
thought people would like it and 
find it useful." 

The center section of the control 
panel lets users select both the physi¬ 
cal and software configurations they 
want to use. The bottom selection 
tells the firmware where the FPD is 
actually placed. Normally it will be 
placed to the left of the Mac, but it 
can work to the right of it. 

The top center controls let users 
select either the FPD screen only, 
the Mac screens only (this choice is 
total Mac compatibility and also 
disables all the Radius firmware) or 
both screen working as one (the 
default choice). The radio style but¬ 
tons confirm or cancel your choices. 

There are two sliders on the right. 
The one towards the center controls 
the built-in screen blackening fea¬ 
ture, determining how long it will 
wait before darkening the screen. 
This feature is necessary to reduce 
wear and tear on that big, expensive 
CRT. 

The other slider controls the 
height of the top of the image on the 
larger screen. Sometimes, particular¬ 
ly if the Mac is raised up off the desk 



ing the top image. 


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HENRIK KAM 



(sitting on a hard disk, for example) 
the tops of the images on both 
screens won’t align properly. And 
they must, so you can have a win¬ 
dow appear correctly while partially 
on one screen and partially on the 
other. Also, if the images are mis¬ 
aligned, the cursor will appear to 
jump when crossing over. This slider 
lets you rectify such problems with¬ 
out resorting to the FPD’s built-in 
leveling and raising legs. 

To sum up the firmware, I can 
only say that it is extremely slick. 
And the highest compliment I can 
pay it is to say that it is totally 
transparent. You couldn’t ask for 
more. 

SOFTWARE QUESTIONS (AND AN¬ 
SWERS) 

The FPD does not require 
changes to your software. All the 
code needs is built into its ROM 
chips. Thus all software should work 
with it. Of course, some programs 
won’t. As has happened with all 
recent Apple products, some soft¬ 
ware that does things in unusual or 
simply wrong ways, will cause prob¬ 
lems. Games are particularly prone 
to these problems. To deal with 
these very rare situations, the FPD 
has a total Mac compatibility mode. 
Click on the icon that shows only the 
Mac in solid lines and all of the FPD 
circuitry is bypassed. If the software 
ran on your Mac before the Radius 
modifications were made, it will run 
when the FPD is in Mac compatibil¬ 
ity mode. 

The benefits of a larger screen area 
will be obvious with many pro¬ 
grams. The ability to see more of a 
document at once may be the major 


AT YOUR SERVICE 

What’s the big deal about Servant? 
Well, Andy Hertzfeld wrote it and he’s 
excited about it. Apple was excited 
enough to buy the rights to distribute it. 
And everyone who’s seen it has been very 
excited. 

But that doesn’t answer the question. 
OK, Servant is a replacement application 
for the Finder. It will do everything the 
Finder does and a lot more. You’ll be able 
to have several applications running at 


benefit when working with spread¬ 
sheets, but there are other, extremely 
useful ways to gain more productivi¬ 
ty when working with graphics pro¬ 
grams. 

Consider a high-powered graphics 
program like Mindscape’s Graphic - 
Works or Comic Works. There are lots 
of tools and you have to keep pulling 
them up to the screen and then 
hiding them. The FPD way of work¬ 
ing not only lets you have a full page 
of your graphic creation, but also 
lets you set up all the tool menus and 
dialogs on the smaller screen. Since 
as far as the software is concerned, 
it’s all one screen, just mouse over to 
change tools and zip right back onto 
the document. The time and frustra¬ 
tion savings are awesome. 


once (multitasking). You’ll have a re¬ 
source editing facility better than anything 
yet seen. You’ll be able to customize each 
individual folder and icon. And lots more. 

Andy was showing and giving out 
version 0.79 in mid-August. That 
might be what the final product will look 
like, and knowing Andy, the release ver¬ 
sion may be very different. We’ll be 
keeping you informed about Servant’s 
progress. 


WHY BUY FPD? 

Should the fact that the Radius 
Full Page Display is nearly as revolu¬ 
tionary and exciting as die first Macs 
were be a justification for spending 
nearly $2000 on one? No, of course 
not. But if you remember your first 
sit down session with a Mac, you’re 
in for more of the same with FPD. 
That first time is awesome. 

The actual decision will have to 
take many factors into account. Do 
you use a Mac in your business? Do 
you regularly do page layout or 
other large graphics-intensive work? 
Do you find yourself often scrolling 
long distances, or needing wider 
spreadsheets, or bigger charts? Then 
the FPD may be for you. The added 
productivity that will result will cov¬ 
er its cost in a short time. 

On the other hand, if you fre¬ 
quently move your Mac around, be 
aware that while the Mac and the 
FPD both are around the same size 
and both have built in handles, the 
combination is slightly less portable 
than a 60-lb “portable” TV. You can 
do it, but you’re not going to enjoy 
its “portability”. 

I do have a final thought on the 
Full Page Display now diat I’ve used 
one. It’s very simple. I want one! ^ 

Steven Bobker is the Editm * in Chief of 
MacUser. 


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POWER COMPUTING 



Get the most value 
from Microsoft Works' 


powerful financial 
functions. 



b y 


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S h a r o 



n Zardetto Aker 



SOMETIMES SOME THINGS GET 
overlooked. In a big, multifaceted 
program like Microsoft Works , the 
manual can’t cover everything. It 
comes close, but there are some 
things that the program can do diat 
are really useful and not explained 
well at all. 

For example, the spreadsheet has 
eight financial functions that at first 
glance seem so specialized as to be 
intimidating. Yet, five of these func¬ 
tions handle some very basic finan¬ 
cial calculations that come in handy 
for everyone sooner or later. 

These five basic financial functions 
are: 

Pmt—payment; the amount of 
the payments made or received. 

PV—present value; this might be 
the initial amount of a loan, or the 
starting value of an investment. 

FV—future value; this is usually 
the amount your investment will be 
worth after a period of time. 

NPer—number of periods; this 
represents how many payments are 
involved for the investment or loan. 


* * * Excerpted and adapted from Mas¬ 
tering Microsoft Works by Sharon Zar¬ 
detto Aker , published by Compute! 
Books. Reprinted by permission of the 
publisher.*** 


Rate—interest rate per period for 
the investment or the loan. 

These five functions are interde¬ 
pendent: given the three or four 
items of information. Works can cal¬ 
culate the others. So, if you know 
how much money you want to bor¬ 
row, and what the interest rate and 
length of the loan will be, you can 
find out the amount of your pay¬ 
ments. Or, if you know how much 
you can afford to pay each month on 
a loan and what the current interest 
rate is, you can find out how much 
you will be able to borrow. With 
information like this available in 
Works, you can handle your budget¬ 
ing and financial planning with a few 
clicks of the mouse. 

FUNCTIONS AND ARGUMENTS 

Functions are operations that take 
information you supply, manipulate 
it and give you an answer. The 
information you supply (the stuff 
that goes in the parentheses of a 
function) are the arguments. 

Any time a number is needed as an 
argument, you can substitute any 
item that represents a number. So, 
“4+8” is a number argument, as is a 
reference to a cell that contains a 
number; a function that evaluates to 
a number can also be used as ai 
argument. 


NOVEMBER 1986 MACUSER61 








THE MONEY’S IN THE WORKS 


Most functions “return” a num¬ 
ber; that is, the cell in which you 
enter the function will display a 
number that is the result of the 
function’s calculation. 

We’ll take a look at each one of the 
financial functions separately, but 
first, there are three general rules to 
observe when using any of the finan¬ 
cial functions. 

• Works uses negative numbers to 
indicate payments you make —an ini¬ 
tial deposit in a savings account, or 
monthly payments on a loan, for 
instance. Positive numbers are for 
payments you receive —a mortgage or 
other loan, or income from an annu¬ 
ity. 


to stand for the number of months, 
then Rate must be the monthly in¬ 
terest rate. The Pmt parameter is also 
in the same unit as NPer and Rate— 
it may refer to monthly or annual 
amounts (or any other interval), de¬ 
pending on the NPer and Rate units. 

Because interest rates are usually 
given in terms of the annual rate and 
you may be concerned with monthly 
payments, you can make Works do 
the necessary conversions. Just use 
the annual rate divided by 12 as the 
Rate parameter in any function 
argument: u 12.5%/12” is sufficient 
—you don’t have to type in 
“1.04%,” and the figure Works cal¬ 
culates is slightly more accurate. 


If you do not enter a future value, 
Works enters a zero for it, as it docs 
for type. 

The formula may appear in the 
edit bar with numbers as arguments: 

Pmt(9.75%/12,48,9000,0,0) 
or, more likely, with cell references 
as some of die arguments. 

Pmt(D2,E2,F2,0,0) 

If you know the amount, term and 
interest rate of a loan, you can deter¬ 
mine the payments you will have to 
make. With annual interest at 
9.75%, you’ll find that a 4-vear, 
$9000 car loan requires payments of 
$227 a month: 

Pmt(9.75%/12,48,9000,0,0) 
returns a -227.18 in the spreadsheet. 
The result is a negative number 
because it’s money you’d be paying 
each month. Note that the Rate is 
given as “9.75%/12” to change the 
annual interest to a monthly rate; the 
number of periods is given as 48 
months rather than 4 years. No 
future value is supplied in the argu¬ 
ment because there is no future val¬ 
ue: at the end of 4 years, all the 
money will have been paid back. The 


Using the Abs function on 
a financial function will 
turn the negative result 
into a positive number. 


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Works inserts the neces¬ 
sary zeroes for certain 
items in financial func¬ 
tions. 


If you need a negative number to 
plug into the argument of a financial 
function, but you’re referencing a 
cell that contains that number as a 
positive number, you can put a nega¬ 
tive sign in front of the cell name: if 
D4 holds 122, then -D4 represents - 
122 . 

When your final answer is a nega¬ 
tive number—for the amount of a 
monthly payment, for instance—and 
you want it to appear as a positive 
number in the cell, use the Abs 
function to do the conversion. Abs 
gives the absolute value of its argu¬ 
ment. For example, 

Pmt(9.75%,12,48,9000,0,0) 
returns a -277, but you can put the 
entire financial function as an argu¬ 
ment to the Abs function so the 
answer appears as a positive number: 

Abs(Pmt(9.75%, 12,48,9000,0,0) 
returns a 277. 

•In all financial functions, it is 
important to keep Rate and NPer 
referring to the same amount of 
time. If Rate is interest per year, 
then NPer must be the number of 
years. Conversely, if NPer is going 


•Whenever type is available as an 
argument, you can ignore it unless 
you want to be really picky. “Type” 
defines when a payment is made: a 
type of 0 indicates payments are 
made at the end of a period, while a 
type of 1 means payments arc made 
at the beginning of a period. You 
don’t have to fill in the type at all; if 
you leave it out. Works fills in a 0 for 
you. 

THE PMT FUNCTION 

The syntax of the Pmt function is: 

Pmt (rate, periods, present value , fu¬ 
ture value , type ) 


present value is the $9000 loan 
amount, and it’s a positive number 
because it’s a sum you receive. 

If, on the other hand, you’d like to 
figure out how much you have to 
save each month to get your current 
$2000 savings account to reach 
$10,000 in 2 years at an interest rate 
of 6.5%, you would use: 

Pmt(6.5'%/12,24,-2000,10000,0) 
The interest rate is again given as a 
monthly figure, as is the number of 
periods. In this example, present val¬ 
ue is a negative number because it is 
a payment you make into an ac¬ 
count, while fiiture value is positive 


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You can figure out what your car payments would be before you even talk to the bankers. 


because it is, in effect, a payment 
you’ll be receiving. 

You’ll find that you’d have to save 
S302.20 every month—the answer 
shows up as a negative number be¬ 
cause it’s money you’d be paying. 

THE PV FUNCTION 

The syntax for die Present Value 
function is: 

P V(mte, periods, payment, future 
value, type) 

If you don’t enter future value or 
type, Works will enter zeros for those 
values. 

If you know you can spend $215 a 
month on a car loan, and the going 
rate is 9.8% for a 4-year loan, you 
can find out how much you can 
borrow: 

PV(9.8%/12,48,-215,0,0) 
returns 8509, or $8,509. 

The rate and the number of peri¬ 
ods are both given in monthly terms; 
the payment is a negative number 
because it’s money you’re spending, 
and the result is positive because 
it’s money you’d be receiving. 

If you want to know how much 
you should invest now at 12.2% so 
that it will reach $30,000 in 10 
years, you can use the PV function 
with 0 as the pavmcnt parameter: 

PV (12.2%, 10,0,30000,0) 
gives -9488.39, so you know you 
can more than triple your money in a 
decade with this investment. 

This investment example shows 
the advantage of having the financial 
functions available. You can rough 
out the same scenario year-by-year 
with straight math in the spread¬ 
sheet, but you’d have to do it in 11 
cells, one holding the original invest¬ 
ment, and one for each year. 


THE FV FUNCTION 

The Future Value function is in 
many ways the inverse of Present 
Value, and its syntax and usage is 
similar. The syntax is: 

F V (rate,periods,payments,present 
value,type) 

and an example might appear in the 
spreadsheet as: 

F V(. 1275,10,A 15,0,0) 

Present value and type can be left 
out and Works will fill in the zeroes. 
Say you decide to put aside $50 a 



Note that the rate, period, and 
payments arc all given as annual 
figures in this example; and the 
payments and present value are neg¬ 
ative numbers because they are pay¬ 
ments you are making. The future 
value is a positive number because it 
is a payment you will receive. 

THE NPER FUNCTION 

The syntax of NPer (number of 
periods) is: 

N Vtr (rate,payments,present value , 
fiiture value y type) 

Works will fill in future value or 
type with a zero if you don’t fill it in. 

If you want to pay off a 12%, 
$5000 loan with monthly payments 
of $125, you can calculate how long 
it will take by using NPer: 

NPer(l%, -125,5000,0,0) 
returns 51.4 

Note that the interest rate is given 
as 1%, which is the monthly interest 
rate, since the periods are also 
months. The payment is represented 
as a negative number, because it is 
money you are paying; the present 


It's easy to figure out how 
long you’ll be in debt rf 
you know how much 
you’re borrowing at what 
interest rate, and how 
much you’ll be paying ev¬ 
ery month. 


month for your daughter in an ac¬ 
count that will earn 8.9% interest. 
To find out how much you will have 
at the end of 10 years, use: 

FV(8.9%, 10,-600,0,0) 
and you’ll see that you’ll have just 
under $9100. 

You might want to use FV with a 
present value included in the argu¬ 
ment. If you have $5000 in a special 
account that is drawing 10.5% inter¬ 
est, and plan to deposit $100 a 
month, you can calculate the amount 
of money you’ll have at the end of 5 
vears: 

FV(10.5%,5,-1200, -5000,0) 
returns 15,636.63. 


value is a positive number, because it 
is money you received. The answer 
51.4 refers to the basic unit of months. 

THE RATE FUNCTION 

The syntax for Rate is: 

Rat c(periods,payment,present value -, 
future value , type, guess) 

Future value and type can be left 
out, in which case Works inserts 
zeroes. Guess is a value that Works 
begins with when it tries to solve the 
problem; you can leave it out, and 
Works will insert 0.1 (10%, which 
will work almost all the time. 

If you know the initial value of an 
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Or they could wait. 

A lot of people have been waiting. 



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Orbiter (requires 512k) .27. 

Tellstar North Level I (req. 512k) .27. 

Unicorn 

Animal Kingdom (ages 6-12) .27. 

Decimal Dungeon (math, ages 9 and up). . 27. 
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It’s a relatively minor problem to 
transfer data from a dBase applica¬ 
tion into a Mac data base because 
dBase allows data to be stored in a 
variety of standard ASCII formats, 
which can be easily read and convert¬ 
ed by Mac systems. But what about 
those thousands of lines of dBase 
program code you agonized over — 
or that someone else, who has since 
moved to Hawaii, wrote 5 years 
ago? Who wants to pore through 
them, figure out what theyVe doing, 
and then rewrite them as Omnis 3 
scripts or Helix tiles? Nobody in 
their right mind. 

So, is the wait over? Yes, and no. 
dMac III from Format Software, a 
dBase III workalike for the Mac, is a 
promising new product. It fills a 
valuable niche in the library of Mac¬ 
intosh software and could be the 
program to provide this much-need¬ 


ed bridge. In fact, the target market 
for dMac III is precisely those people 
who either want to convert an exist¬ 
ing dBase system, or arc fluent in 
dBase programming and want that 
capability on the Mac. If the data 
base system you want to create on 
the Mac doesn’t exist yet, and if you 
don’t know dBase y you’re probably 
better off with one of the products 
designed specifically to exploit the 
Mac’s capabilities. 

cL.. 

dMac III is designed to allow you 
to transfer existing dBase II and III 
systems directly to the Mac, and run 
them with a minimum of difficulty. 
Specifically, .PRG (program files) 
can be transferred directly; and 
.DBF (data) files can easily be con¬ 
verted using the dMac III CONVERT 
command; ,FMT (report format), 


.LBL (label format), .MEM (memo¬ 
ry variables) and .NDX {data base 
index) files must be recreated. None 
of this presents any serious difficul¬ 
ty—in theory. 

A dWORKALIKE THAT WORKS — 
MOSTLY 

To test the theory, I tried convert¬ 
ing three sets of data and program 
files, one each from dBase II } dBase 
III and dBase III + systems. By far 
the easiest was the dBase III system. I 
used the sample data and programs 
from AshtonTate’s dBase III tutori¬ 
al. They worked. The system didn’t 
crash. It didn’t hang up. It didn’t 
lose data. There were a few minor 
code changes required, but for the 
most part the transfer was complete¬ 
ly straightforward. 

dMac III has provided a hybrid 
user interface. Much of the work of 




COVERING dBASES 


programming or manipulating data 
am Lie done from the Command 
menu (see Figure 1). The ASSIST 
command adds an additional menu 
and dialog box, which make even 
more dBase commands available via 
the standard Mac interface. But the 
original command line prompt has 
also been retained. Some people may 
dislike this and consider ir unortho¬ 
dox, or unMac-like. I fed exactly the 
opposite. 

While the Mac interface is much 
more user friendly than PC-DOS, 1 
often prefer to keep my hands on the 
keyboard and type commands direct¬ 
ly. Pm used to the dBase command 
prompt; for me it's more efficient 
than using the menus. Format is 
planning to enhance dMac’s interface 
to make it more Mac-like in future 
releases. Thar's a fine idea, but 1 
hope they don't decide to eliminate 
the command prompt in the process. 

One nice touch dMac III offers is 
that its dBase interpreter presents an 
error message in a dialog box when¬ 
ever it encounters an error (see Fig¬ 
ure 2). The dialog box shows vou 
the offending line of code, and 
points to the trouble spot. Unfortu¬ 
nately, it doesn’t tell vou which of 
your programs was Ruining when 
the error occurred, so you may have 
to hunt a little. Format Software has 
promised an enhancement that will 
automatically switch to the editor 
when an error occurs, with the cur¬ 
sor pointing to the error. IPs sched¬ 
uled for late summer. 

An extensive help utility is also 
provided, which reproduces virtually 
the entire command and function 
reference section of the manual as a 
series of easily accessible screen dis¬ 
plays (see Figure 3). 

The best thing about dMac III is 
that it is fast. To see just how fast, 
look at the table. I performed an 
identical set of COUNT, COPY. SORT 
and INDHX commands, working 
from an 800 K floppy, an HD-20 
and a RAMdisk. My file contained 
1230 records of 225 bytes each. 
While I don’t have specific compari¬ 
son figures for dBase II or III, the 
speed of dMac III is more than 
satisfactory. A hard disk provides 
significant improvement over an 
8Q0K floppy. Likewise, a RAMdisk 


provides significant improvement 
over a hard disk, but don Y put your 
data files on a RAMdisk — it is too 
easy to lose them there. 

dBUGS 

A serious bug in the program 
presented itself during these time 
comparisons. When indexing, dMac 
III creates an index file separate from 
the data base file itself. If there isn't 
enough room for this second file on 
the disk, an error message appears, 
and you are invited to dick on the 
OK button. But when you do, noth¬ 
ing happens. In fact, nothing further 
happens until you turn off the ma¬ 
chine and reboot. 

Until this bug is fixed, don’t at¬ 
tempt to index unless you are certain 
there is enough free space on your 
disk ro handle the index file. How 
do you know how big your index file 
is going to Lie? You don't. When vou 
estimate, err on the side of caution. 
And if you were planning ro ignore 
the earlier warning about putting 
your data on a RAMdisk, reconsider. 

dCISIONS, dCISIONS... 

Converting dBase II and dBase 
///+ systems presented more diffi¬ 
culties. Ashton-Tate made some ma¬ 
jor changes to the dBase program¬ 
ming language going from II to III. 
The functions work differently, the 
screen-clearing command was 
changed, string handling was modi¬ 
fied — and the list goes on. Each of 
these changes requires changes in 
your code. Jusr how much changing 
depends on how much you rely on 
the parts of the language that were 
modified. 

Fortunately, since all of the func¬ 
tionality of dBase II is present in 
dBase III , converting dBase II files 
requires a fairly simple, albeit te¬ 
dious, task of substitution. Howev¬ 
er, despite the fact that the data 
conversion command refers to both 
dBase II and III, Format offers abso¬ 
lutely no information on the differ¬ 
ences between dBase II and dMac IIL 

I had similar problems converting 
from dBase III +, Here, I again used 
the Ashton-Tate tutorial samples. 
dBase III + presented additional 
problems because it provides func¬ 
tionality that has no counterpart in 


dMac 111. Portions of dBase III + 
code either have to be deleted or 
implemented in another way. dMac 
III lets you know the problems are 
there by generating errors. But 
again. Format Software should have, 
and didn't, provide any information 
about what to look out for. 

A more serious proLilcm with the 
dBase Ill + conversion was that the 
cursor got hopelessly hung up in 
certain data fields that used the PIC¬ 
TURE command. I still don't under¬ 
stand why. The code didn't generate 
any errors, but there was no way our 
of one particular field except the 
reset switch. After two or three rc- 
boots, I gave up. 

1 believe that most of these prob¬ 
lems can be worked around or lived 
with. Conversions always require 
some hacking. It's part of the cost of 
progress. And Format seems serious¬ 
ly committed both to working out 
bugs in their code and to enhancing 
the product. I still remember how 
Helix worked when it first came 
out.... 

WHAT’S dPROBLEM? 

There is one area in which dMac 
III flunks—documentation. Not that 
there isn't a lot of it. There is, 
including a tutorial, a reference sec¬ 
tion with information on all the 
commands and functions, a full set 
of on-line help screens and a series of 
appendices. Unfortunately, it is both 
inaccurate and inadequate. 

For starters, the dAIac III docu¬ 
mentation is a translation from Ger¬ 
man to English (the program was 
developed in Germany). At times 
this is amusing. But technical writ¬ 
ing must be very precise. Getting a 
rough impression of how something 
is supposed ro work isn't good 
enough. For example, the Tutorial, 
in the context of discussing how to 
display different columns of data on 
the screen, talks about “drawing the 
borders of the output.” You might 
expect to learn how to display a box 
around the data, but instead it’s a 
lesson on how to narrow selection 
parameters for a query. It's confus¬ 
ing, and it could have been avoided 
by applying the talents of a good 
technical writer to a solid edit of the 
translation. 


70MACU5ER NOVEMBER 1986 




Moreover, the tutorial that came 
with the version I tested, 1.06, had 
so many errors in it that I found it 
easier to learn the program by play¬ 
ing around with it myself. For exam¬ 
ple, during a discussion of entering 
new data with the Append com¬ 
mand, the tutorial tells you to type a 
COMMAND-S to save the current re¬ 
cord and leave the Append mode, or 
COMM AND-A to leave it without sav¬ 
ing. It doesn’t work that way. In¬ 
stead, COMMAND-S takes you to the 
next record. Only COMMAND-A gets 
you out. You can’t save the current 
record and leave the Append mode 
directly. You first have to go to a 
blank record, and then use COM¬ 
MANDS 

Some crucial information is also 
completely missing. All dAIac III 
programs have file names that end 
with ...DBF, ...PRG, ...FMT, etc. 
Not too tough, right? But those 
three dots are not periods. They are 
the elipsis character, created by hold¬ 
ing down the OPTION key and typ¬ 
ing a semicolon. If you name the 
files the way you’d expect to, with 
three periods, dAIac III will tell von 


it can’t find vour files. There is no 
warning about this. 

The tutorial also informs you that 
“the editor is built in.” In addition, 
there is an appendix devoted to how 
to use the editor. But they’re not 
talking about the same editor. 
There’s an internal one and an exter¬ 
nal one. You don’t get told about 
that. It gets better: suppose you edit 
a program file with the internal 
editor (faster), and later in the same 
session you use Switcher to work on 
the same file with the external editor 
(more powerful), dutifully saving 
your changes to disk when you’re 
done. 

When you try to run your pro¬ 
gram, dAIac III will use the last 
version you created with the internal 
editor and ignore the changes you 
made externally* It does this because, 
in the interest of speed, as much 
information as possible is stored in 
memory, including your programs 
and data. Unfortunately, memory 
doesn’t get informed when the exter¬ 
nal editor saves a newer version of a 
program to disk. So you make 
changes, which you can verify by 


Fig. It The Command and 
Assist menus, together 
with the Assist dialog box 
(partially shown in the 
background), provide the 
user with a powerful Mac- 
like interface to the most 
commonly used dBase 
commands. 



Fig. 2i A dialog box pro¬ 
vides detailed information 
about the nature of syntax 
errors in dMac III pro¬ 
grams. However, it does 
not tell the user in which 
program the offending 
line was found. 



closing and reopening your program 
file with the external editor, but you 
keep getting the same errors over 
and over again. The only way out is 
to push the reset button and start 
again. This is a bug that deserves 
immediate attention. If there are 
going to be two editors, the user 
should be informed about what type 
of work each is best suited to, and 
should definitely not have to reboot 
to switch from one to the other. 

Putting the tutorial aside and giv¬ 
en that the most likely user of dMac 
III is someone who is converting 
from dBase, it’s fair to assume that 
moving your files into dMac III will 
be thoroughly covered in the docu¬ 
mentation. Foiled again. There are 
eight appendices listed in the Table 
of Contents, including one entitled 
"Tips on Data Transmission.” But 
only two of the eight were present, 
and “Tips” wasn’t one of them. In¬ 
stead, there were six pages that read: 
"This Chapter is missing in this 
version. You will receive it with the 
update.” 

This omission, coupled with the 
flaws in the tutorial, makes the docu¬ 
mentation package decidedly unpro¬ 
fessional. The user should be taken, 
step bv step, through the conversion 
process, with all the potential pitfalls 
pointed out. There should be an 
explanation of data transmission, ca¬ 
ble pinouts and a list of “what iPs,” 
A precise strategy for how to convert 
or recreate all the different types of 
files in a dBase system should be 
presented. The differences between 
dBase II or dBase III T and dMac III 
should be exhaustively explained— 
or, at the very least, a list of second¬ 
ary references should be given. None 
of this is done. 

MAKING dCONVERSION 

Fortunately, the technical aspect 
of converting files is not very diffi¬ 
cult. Here’s what you need to do. 
Before vou start, printout all of vour 
.MEM, .FRM and .LBL files. Then, 
for each .DBF file, open all its index¬ 
es and type DISPLAY STATUS TO 
PRINT. You’ll need all this stuff later. 
Then, hook up a the serial port of a 
PC to the Mac’s modem port using a 
null modem cable, set the baud rate, 
transfer protocol, etc., and send all 


NOVEMBER 1986 MACUSEB71 






























































COVERING dBASES 


Fig. 3: All of dMac ftf's 
commands are thoroughly 
explained in its on-line 
help facility. One example 
is shown here. 



of the .DBF and .PRG Files straight 
across. 

I used three different programs to 
do this: MacLink, PC to Mac and 
Back , and a combination of Micro¬ 
phone (on the Mac end) and IMP 
(running on an Apple lie CP/M 
system). They all worked. If you’re 
not sure how to do this, ask some¬ 
one who knows. The folks at Format 
Software will walk you through it. 

The second step is cleanup and 
renaming Files. The .DBF files need 
to have their .DBF extensions de¬ 
leted, and then each of them needs 
to be CONVERTcd in dMac III , 
which will automatically append the 
new ...DBF extension. You will have 
to manually change the ,PRG (or 
.CMD) files to ...PRG files (remem¬ 
ber, use OITTON-SEMICOLON for the 
ellipsis!). This is most efficiently 
done on the desktop. 

Both MacLink and PC to Mac and 
Back left garbage characters in the 
.PRG files. These are line feeds that 
didn’t get stripped out during trans¬ 
mission, They appear as rectangles at 
the beginning of each line. They’re 
harmless; the programs will run even 
if they’re there. But if you want to 
get rid of them, you can do so easily 
with a search and replace in the 
external editor. 

Now refer back to the files you 
printed out earlier. Using them, you ■ 
will be able to manually recreate 
your .FRM and ,LEL files in the 
editor. Memory variable values can 
be entered directly at the dMac III 
prompt, and the SAVE TO command 
will create the necessary ...MEM 
files. Finally, recreate all the indexes, 
using the information you printed 
out with DISPLAY STATUS as your 


guide to which key fields to use. 
Then run your programs, and cor¬ 
rect any errors that occur. 

ABOUT dSYSTEM 

These days there are so many 
configurations of Mac hardware and 
system software around that some 
qualifications arc in order. I used 
dMac III on both the 512K and the 
Mac Plus, with both 400K and 
800K drives, and both with and 
without an HD2Q, I was running 
System 3. L1 with Finder 5.2, None 
of these variations caused a problem. 
However, a few points are worth 
mention ii ig—s p ec i fi e a 11 y, vers ioi i 
1.06 is not fully HFS-compatible. It 
will run on HFS, but the application 
and all of your data, program and 
other files have to be in the same 
folder. The next release is supposed 
to cure this problem. 

The program is memory hungry. 
It wants 512K and will gladly take 
more if its available. This means that 
ifs not practical to use it under 
Switcher with anything less than a 
Mac Plus. 

dMac III appeared to be Switcher- 
compatible (I gave it 64QK), but I 
had trouble switching it with the 
external editor, AIDS Edit . In fact, as 
soon as I typed a character in the 
editor’s text window, the menu bar 
started flashing and the system hung. 
Several times. Other editors I loaded 
with dMac III under Switcher 
worked fine, (Make sure, if you use 
AlacWrite or Word, that you save 
your program files as Text Only.) 

As the deadline for this review 
approached. Format Software was 
promising upgraded software and 
improved documentation free to all 


registered owners. The software, 
they said, was in hand, the documen¬ 
tation at the printer. They sent me 
several revised pages of the tutorial, 
and thev appear to have at least 
corrected some of the grosser inaccu¬ 
racies, By the time you read this, 
many of the problems I refer to may 
have been solved. Still, those who 
use an early version of the program 
will have a pretty rough time—-and 
without seeing the complete set of 
new documentation, it’s hard to say 
how much better it will be. 

dEND 

Overall, I would say that if the 
Jack of a dBase product on the Mac 
lias kept you from leaving Big Blue 
for the Apple orchard, you can stop 
waiting. dMac III can do the job. 
This is particularly true if you are 
con verting from dBase III to dMac 
III. However, be aware that it is not 
bulletproof, and back up frequently. 

If you’re planning to convert a 
dBase II or dBase III + system, 
vouYe in for an adventure, I suspect 
that anyone who has programmed in 
dBase is used to adventure. But don’t 
say no one warned you. 

For the faint-hearted, Fd say wait 
a while longer. Format has said they 
are committed to fixing and enhanc¬ 
ing their product—the documenta¬ 
tion as well as the software. For 
S495, you have a right to a product 
that not only works, but is easy to 
use. m 

He Jay Boitnmn is a Smi Francisco area 
ivriter. 


DMAC III <3> 


Overall Rating 

Follows Mac Interface 
Printed Documentation 
On-Screen Help 
Performance 
Support 

Consumer Value 


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Comments: Much-needed dBase III worha- 
like, but still needs work. Best Feature: 
Fast. Good hybrid of Mac and command 
line user interface. Worst Feature: Poor 
documentation, program still buggy. List 
Price: S495. Published by Format Soft¬ 
ware, 11770 Bernardo Plaza Ct., San Die¬ 
go, CA 92128. (619) 487-6946. Version 
1.06 reviewed, Copy protected. 




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Make PageMaker into the creature you always 

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PAGEMAKER IS THE MOST IMPGR- 
tant piece of software for many desk¬ 
top publishers. It’s usually described 
as vital. And it docs provide enor¬ 
mous publishing power for even the 
smallest operation. But for ever)' 
happy and productive PageMaker 
user, there seems to be an unhappy 
and frustrated owner. Many people 
start out loving PageMaker and end 
up frustrated. While it’s very easy to 
get started in PageMaker, the case of 
use is deceiving. Once you start 
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there are going to be problems. 
That's a promise, not a prediction] 
However, there are tricks, shortcuts 
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Some of these tricks are buried 
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know that you can toggle from any 
other view to 200% view with COM¬ 
MAND-OPTION-CLICK, raise your 
hand. That one is in the manual, as is 
the COMMAND-CLICK to toggle back 
and forth between Actual view and 
Fit on Page. 

THE PRICE OF FANCY 

Sooner or later, some other prob¬ 
lems will crop up, as you get a little 
fancier in your layouts. Here’s one 
for LaserWriter users. Do you some¬ 


times wish you had a little more 
room on your disk ro work with? 
Those laser drivers and prep files 
sure do take up a lot of space. Open 
up FontlDA Mover and look and see 
if you have all the sizes of each 
LaserWriter font in your System. 
ThcvTe simply not necessary. Unlike 
the Image Writer, the LaserWriter 
knows how to make every size of 
every LaserWriter font. It doesn’t 
require each size in vour System. Try 
removing all but one small size of 
each LaserWriter font you will be 
using (Figure 1). 

The end result will be that the on¬ 
screen appearance of those sizes not 
in the System will be rough, but the 
LaserWriter output will be letter 
perfect. And you’ll have lots more 
room to work with. 

OVER AND OVER 

Do vou always reenter vour favor¬ 
ite margin settings in the Page Setup 
box? If you use the same settings 
time after time, pull down Page 
Setup from the gray desktop and 
make vour selections there. You can 
also pull down Preferences from 
there and specify picas and points 
instead of inches, if you prefer. 
These choices, made from the gray 
desktop, will become your default 
choices every time you open up a 
new PageMaker document. 


Of course, another way to do the 
same thing is to establish blank tem¬ 
plate documents with ail your pre¬ 
ferred settings, plus a starter page 
with your column rules. Open this 
template and choose Save As... to 
begin each new job. 

Perhaps you have typed or im¬ 
ported (Place command) text into a 
20-pica column (Figure 2). A little 
later you decide the column has ro 
be 14 picas wide — or 24 picas wide. 

Do you have to retype or reposition 
the text to make it conform to your 
new column width? No. Just “roll 
up” the windowshade until no text 
shows (Figure 3). 

Now set vour new column width. 
Then click on the + sign on your 
rolled up windowshade and pour the 
text between your new column mar¬ 
gins. Just pour your text into the 14- 
pica column (Figure 4), or the 24- 
pica column (Figure 5) or any other 
size column you want to pour it 
into. 

BORDER MATTERS 

Have you ever drawn a nice box to 
border an ad vert ism ent, announce¬ 
ment or other block of text? When 
you starred typing text into the box, 
the box obscured part of the first 
letter (Figure 6A), If you attempt to 
remedy this situation by moving the 
entire windowshade, you’ll never get 
your document to print out just 
right. The correct procedure is: 

L Draw the box in the correct 
location. 

2, Now move your margins in 
from the left and right to indicate an 
area for the text. 

3. Place or type text between your 
newly located margins. 

The result is seen in Figure 6B. 

STANDING OUT 

White text on black backgrounds 
looks nice. However, if you have 
ever tried “grabbing” either the text 
or the black box to move it a bit 
vou’ve run into problems. The best 
solution is to make the box a little 
too wide or too high (Figure 7). 
Now it’s easy to grab it if you need 
to move it. When everything is just ^ 
right, reshape the box to its exact < 
size. aj 

Anothcr way to make changes in 5 
shapes beneath text is to roll up the ^ 


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Bookman 10 

Chicago 12 

Courier 10 

Geneua 9 

Geneua 12 


Tiis line of type is partially 
bscured by the box. 

This box is 16 pices vide. 

The boldfece type above ves Typed 
vithout moving the column mle3. 


This line of type is not 
bbscured by the box. 

[This box is also 16 picas vide,! 
hovever, after draving the t>ox,j 
the column guides vere pulled ini 
bne pica on each side before text 
jwas typed into the box. 

Helvetica 9 < 

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Fig. 1: Reduce your System to only one small Fig 6: A, The border often obscures text. B. The fix. 

size of each font. 


windowshadc halfway into the 
shape. Now you can grab the shape 
and move it. When you are finished, 
pull the windowshadc down again 
(Figure 8). 

LIFE AIN'T ALWAYS WSYIWYG 

What you see is not always what 
you get. One way to goof in Page¬ 
Maker is to take your last "look" in 
other than Actual View. The text in 
Figure 9 looks as if it is not justified. 
But it is. If you look at it in Actual 
■View, you will see that it is all right. 

Another common mistake made 
by new users of PageMaker is creat¬ 
ing too many blocks of text (Figure 
10). The fewer blocks of text you 
have in your document, the easier it 
is to adjust when needed. 


Ah, you say, but I need this text 
larger and flush right, and then this 
text small and centered and then this 
text on and on. 

That’s all right! Use the Tab... 
command to put things where you 
want them. Anything you highlight 
immediately prior to a Tab... com¬ 
mand will be affected by the tab 
stops you set — no more, no less. 

The other tool you can use to keep 
all text in a single block is the series 
of Flush Left, Right, Centered and 
Justified menu items. Highlight the 
lines you want to change and use 
one of these menu items. 

Never, never, never do your posi¬ 
tioning with the spacebar. The re¬ 
sults arc guaranteed to be poor. 

Try not to do your positioning by 


moving windowshades around. It is 
much better to set the margins in the 
correct location, close the window- 
shades, click on their + signs, and 
pour the text between the newly 
placed margins. 

BIGGER AND BETTER 

The PageMaker manual says you 
are limited to » 127-point type. 
There’s a way around that. Type 
your lcttcr(s) in MacDraw . Save the 
image as a PICT file. Import this 
image into PageMaker using the 
Clipboard or the Scrapbook. Then 
grab a corner and stretch to vour 
heart’s content. If you simultaneous¬ 
ly hold down the Shift key, the 
letter(s) will remain proportional. 
For special effects, stretch in any 


CL 


[This is a sample of text vhich starts 
|out in one column size and is thenj 
changed to any other column vidthj 
jyou vant. 


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[This is a sample of text! 
yhich starts out in onej 
col umn size and is then] 
bhanged to any other! 
bolumn vidth you! 
leant. 

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Fig. 2: Start out with a 2D 
pica wide text column. 


Fig. 3: Start your resizing 
by “rolling up" the win- 
dowshade. 


Fig. 4: Set a new column 
width and pour in the text. 
This column is 14 picas 


Fig. 5; This column is 24 
picas wide. 


other column vidth you vant. 


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Fig. 7: White on black text can be very hard to 
grab. 


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the curtain so you 
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Fig. 0: This text is actually 
justified. Only an Actual 
Size view shows exactly 
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Leading: 


•4 


iTvelve point Times ^yped vlth the default 
Points fading, Psgemaker aets the default leading at 
^or 2 points preceding each line of type. 

IVelve point Times highlighted 

J-v-j to 


O Ruto leading 

Fig. 12: You don't have to 
accept the programs lead* 
ing, Set whatever you 
want. 

Fig, 13: The amount of 
leading makes a big dif¬ 
ference in the final ap¬ 
pearance. You will proba¬ 
bly have to experiment to 
see what works best. 


md leading charged 


ling 

:rovding oetveen lines. 


points. Notice the! 


IVelve point Times highlighted (selected)! 
ind Leading changed to 16 points. Notice the! 
;xtra space betveenlines. 


IT 



WitJi blocks of type 
all ovur the place you 
vill find that things 
get confusing fast, 
n “ 

A 

ul another block of type ovsr hers 
to contend mth. 


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Tilt? Tct 
iiotkcr 

Moek of 

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Fig. 10: Too many type blocks make the job 
much harder, 

direction without using the Shift 
key. In any event, the LaserWriter 
output will be as smooth as any 
other LaserWriter font output. 

BETWEEN THE LINES 

Another common problem is lead¬ 
ing. Leading is the space between 
the bottom of letters like y and g and 
the top of the capital letters on the 
next line. When you type or Place 
text in PageMaker, the leading is 
automatic. But if you require more 
space between lines (to fill a certain 
space) or less space (to fit more 
material in), the leading must be 
changed. 

Changing leading is simple. High¬ 
light the lines which need more or 


127 point Palatino 


Falalino text imported as PICT 
document from MacDraw and 
stretched with the Shift key held 
down to retain proportion. 



Palatine text imported as PICT 
document from MacDraw and 
stretched without 
the Shift key held down. 

Fig. 11: There's no limit on type sizes. 


less leading. There are many ways to 
select text: 

•Hold down die mouse and sweep 
through it. 

•Click the cursor at the start or end, 
and shift-click at the other end of the 
selection, 

•Double dick on a single word to 
select it. 

•Triple click anywhere in a line to 
select it. 

•Command-click anywhere in a 
paragraph to select it. 
•Command-double-dick anywhere 
in a text block to select it, 

•Click with the pointer anywhere in 
a text block to select it. 

Once all the lines that need new 
leading are selected, use COMMAND 
T to get into the Text Specification 
dialog box. Double-click on the 
word AUTO and type in the number 
of points of leading you want (Fig¬ 
ures 12 and 13). 

TAB ISN'T ONLY FOR DIETERS 

Many PageMaker users have never 
used the Tab... menu item. If you 
tab text in Mac Write or Word } you 
may have never needed to use Page¬ 
Maker's Tab...tool. But if you have 
attempted to Place heavily tabbed 
text in PageMaker and then reduce 


the point size to less than 9 points, 
you surely have run into some tab¬ 
bing problems. Get acquainted with 
the Tab... tool now, not when a 
deadline is approaching (Figure 14). 

The first time you have to Place a 
tiny table with six tabs in a 14-pica 
column and change the type size to 5 
points, you will learn in a hurry. If 
you don’t think so, just try it. Type 
some multi-tab columns in Mae- 
Write , PLACE the material in Page¬ 
Maker and select Tab....The Page¬ 
Maker manual addendum for version 
1.2 is the best source of Tab infor¬ 
mation. 

Finally, we know the Macintosh 
owners like to boast that “I never 
even had to read the manual.” That’s 
nice. But lor 90 percent of us, read¬ 
ing and rereading manuals will help. 
This is particularly true of Page¬ 
Maker. You will learn something 
useful if you read the manual, I 
guarantee it. And if you read it when 
von got PageMaker' , browse through 
it again now. Most of you will 
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you. £2 

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Give us a call. Phone 1-800-443-7982. In Illinois 1-800-654-3767. 


Utah 

The Computer Store 
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( 801 ) 789-9513 
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JIM LUOTKE 


GRAPH 


I C S 


EVERYONE KNOWS THE SHORT- 
comings of “raw” data* Disorganized 
collections of facts and figures may 
contain a lot of useful information, 
but it’s hidden by its surroundings. 
Even after data lias been “cooked” 
for many hours over the low fires of 
a spreadsheet, its meaning may still 
be obscured* 

Graphs and charts can provide a 
solution* By reconstituting your fig¬ 
ures into graphic images, their sig¬ 
nificance can be brought into sharp¬ 
er focus. And the visualization of 
data is a powerful analytical tool 
Graphic representation can impart 
both form and substance to data, 
helping to define its meaning and 
discover hidden relationships* 

Cricket Graph Science and Business 
Graphics is both an excellent graph 
and chart generator and a useful data 
analyst. Cricket Graph can accept 
data directly entered via the key¬ 
board, or imported from a spread¬ 
sheet or data base. 

IF YOU START ME UP- 

Cricket Graph conics on two 400K 
disks. One disk holds the program 
and sample files, while the other has 
the System software and some device 
drivers for several plotters, version 
4.4 of die Switcher program, and a 
“Switcher Set” file that launches 
Switcher and loads Cricket Graph 
automatically* Note that version 4*4 
of Switcher is not HFS-compatible, 
but at die time of production was 
the “official,” releasable version* 
Now that Apple lias released Switch¬ 
er version 5.0, we expect that Cricket 
will be including that version in 
newer packages. 

Cricket Graph requires a 512K or 
larger Mac* Both disks are needed to 
get started, so a two-drive system is 
essential. On a Mac Plus or on an 
Enhanced or upgraded 512K Mac 
with 8QQK drives, you can simplify 
the issue by transferring all the files 
on to one disk* 

FIGURE IT IN 

When vou open Cricket Graph the 
first screen shown is the Data Entry 
window. Tli is window allows users 
to enter data in a row/column 
spreadsheet-like format that can 
grow as large as 40 columns by 2700 


rows, depending only on the amount 
of memory available* Either text or 
numbers may be entered into the 
columns, with new columns and 
rows automatically being created 
and numbered by the program as 
they are needed. 

Cricket Graph columns may not be 
resized, but the program permits 
entry of up to 15 characters per cell. 
Within each column, editing func¬ 
tions may be performed in the same 
fashion as in Mac Write. Scroll bars 
permit movement within the Data 
Entry window and clicking on die 
“Home Box” at the upper left corner 
below the Close Box will speed you 
back to row 1, column 1. 

Cricket Graph also supports multi¬ 
ple data windows. However, to cre¬ 
ate a graph from a particular data set, 
its window must be clicked* 

INSIGHTFUL IMAGES 

To begin the transformation from 
numerical data to insightful images, 
pull down the Graph menu. Twelve 
graphing and charting possibilities 
arc available, ¥ou’ll find the com¬ 
mon bar, line, column and pie 
charts, as well as the less common 
scatter, area, stacked bar, stacked 
column, polar, double Y, and quality 
control (QC) charts. Also included 
here is a text generation option* 

Selecting a chart option brings up 
a dialog box that leads you through 
foe creation of the graph itself. The 
type of plot being created is dis¬ 
played in the upper left of the dialog. 
The items that users must attend to 
are the variables* Choose them from 
the two smaller windows (with verti¬ 
cal scroll bars). Your options are 
determined by the type of plot to be 
produced* Once your choices have 
been highlighted, click on foe New 
Plot control button and begin the 
generation of the graph. Usually 
within seconds (this program is 
quick) ^ the chart is displayed in its 
own window. 

There's no dynamic link between 
the plot Cricket Graph creates and 
the data from which it springs. If 
you return to die Data Entry win¬ 
dow and change a variable, the 
change is not automatically reflected 
in the Graph window. If you want to 
change foe plot of the data in a 


graph, you must alter foe data in foe 
Entry window and plot the graph 
again. However, the extraordinary 
number of cells {for a graph genera¬ 
tor) available in foe Data Entry win¬ 
dow means that Cricket Graph can 
plot several times more data points 
than other programs. 

The image produced by Cricket 
Graph represents the program’s best 
guess as to how the graph should 
look. But each of us will have his or 
tier own idea as to how the data may 
best be represented. Once a graph is 
created, altering it to suit your taste 
or changing it to a more expressive 
guise is literally as easy as pointing 
and clicking* 

Everything on a graph can be 
customized on the spot. A single¬ 
click on any label allows you to drag 
it to a more pleasing location. A 
double-click on a label opens a dia¬ 
log box in which the font, its size, 
and foe orientation of the label may 
be altered. A double-click on a verti¬ 
cal or horizontal scale opens a dialog 
that facilitates the recalibration of 
the chart. In each case, clicking OK 
in the dialog box returns you to foe 
active window. 

If you are still unsure as to wheth¬ 
er your changes present the best 
portrait of your data, simply save 
this graph and start again. With 
Cricket Graph , saving is extremely 
important because dosing an un¬ 
saved Graph window wipes out all 
the work done on that graph. You 
don’t get any warning. You’re not 
asked if you want to save the changes 
or for that matter, the graph. The 
graph simply disappears and can’t be 
recovered. There is no Undo for a 
dosed graph. The data, however, 
stays intact in the Data window, and 
so the graph could be recreated, but 
you’ll have to make all foe changes 
again. This “feature” will be fixed 
in future versions. 

Another saving possibility is to 
just save the format of foe graph by 
choosing SAVE FORMAT from foe 
Formats menu* These “graphic mac¬ 
ros,” as they are called in the User’s 
Guide, consist of all the instructions 
needed to create a graph* Customiz¬ 
ing work is included in the format; 
only the data is left out* A dialog box 
asks you to name the Format and 


NOVE MBER 1986 MAC U SER 83 



DISSECTING CRICKET GRAPH 


adds it to the list available in the 
Formats menu. 

The many options available in 
Cricket Graph and the ease with 
which they can be invoked gives 
users a great deal of flexibility. Look 
at the double Y graph shown. It 
illustrates the relative popular vote 
performance of the major parties. 
This sort of graph can bring new and 
different insights. And it (and the 
other types) arc so easy to create that 
you’ll find yourself looking at your 
data in many different wavs, often 
viewing alternatives you would nev¬ 
er have otherwise considered. 

MORE PRESENTABLE PRESENTATIONS 

The graphs and charts generated 
by Cricket Graph are uniformly excel- 
lent, with a crisply defined profes¬ 
sional look. However, more en¬ 
hancements are available* 

The easiest way to add pizzazz to 
your graphs is to pull down the 
Goodies menu, from which a num¬ 
ber of interesting and useful options 
are accessible. You'll often want to 
Add Depth. This selection trans¬ 


forms a normal “flat” image into a 
more interesting three-dimensional 
graph* You might want to add error 
bars on both the X and Y axes and 
add value labels, such as percentages, 
of each section of a pie chart. 

The Show Tools selection gives 
you the opportunity to add emphasis 
to your images with a number of 
arrows and frames that may be used 
to set off important dements of the 
chart. Switch Axes provides a quick 
way to change the overall look of the 
graph by rotating its orientation. 
This command can, for example, 
change a bar graph to a column 
graph without having to begin 
again. And, if after all this adorn¬ 
ment, you find your image too clut¬ 
tered, the Goodies menu also allows 
you to simplify your graphs by selec¬ 
tively removing such elements as the 
legend, the frame surrounding your 
plot, or the value labels. 

The Goodies menu also unlocks 
the color capabilities of Cricket 
Graph * Just because your Mac can’t 
display color doesn’t mean your 
printer or plotter can’t produce a 


rainbow* The Show Colors selection 
toggles on the color palette. Clicking 
once directly on an item in a graph 
will highlight the color currently 
assigned to this item. A click on 
another color on the palette will 
change the assignment for that item. 
Virtually anything that is displayed 
on a Cricket graph can be assigned a 
hue for polychromatic output on 
printers and plotters. Finally, even 
more embellishment is possible if the 
images created with Cricket Graph 
are moved to MacPaint or MacDrmv 
for further bodv-and-fender work. 

NOT JUST ANOTHER PRETTY FACE 

Charts and graphs are not only 
vehicles for conveying information; 
they’re also analytical tools* Cricket 
Graph has more analytical capability 
than can be found in virtually any 
other microcomputer-based graph¬ 
ing package. 

Even before you begin to create 
graphs, the Data menu gives you 
access to some sophisticated tools for 
data manipulation* The Sort com¬ 
mand allows users to reorganize the 
data in an Entry Window column. 
Sorts can be made in alphabetical, 
ascending or descending order, pre¬ 
serving the order of tied (linked) 
values* The Recode command per¬ 
mits you to change the value of any 
variable within a specified range, 
replace it with another, and place the 
recoded data in a separate column. 

The Transform command per¬ 
forms a variety of mathematical cal* 
culations. Exponentials, running 
sums, percentages, standard devi¬ 
ation, Z scores, as well as, n lh deriva¬ 
tives, X n power, sine, cosine, and 
logarithmic computations are possi¬ 
ble* The results of these functions 
may, in each case, be delivered to a 
target column* Simple Madi and 
Count Frequency commands are also 
available. 

The Smooth command averages 
out irregular data, making for less 
confusing plots. Taken all together, 
these features give the Cricket Graph 
Data Entry window the capabilities 
of a mini-spreadsheet. 

Curve Fit allows users to calculate 
and draw simple, polynomial, loga¬ 
rithmic and exponential regression 
curves on graphs* Also available is a 



An empty Data Entry win¬ 
dow is the starting point 
for Cricket Graph. As 
data is entered, more col¬ 
umns and rows are auto¬ 
mat! catty created by the 
program* 


4 

File Edit 

Date Graph [uruc F11 Poodles 

Formats 



=' Post-War Pre*. Election* in- 


I 

■ t 

a 

3 

4 

5 

6 


jo 

F 


OfTOKTltf 

R*pUfrEkuli 

3rd 

0th trf 

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i 

i9*s 

24/105,012 

21,970,065 

1,157*172 

1*169,021 

46,402,070 



2 

1932 

27,314,992 

33,936,232 



61 ,251,244 



3 

1956 

26,031,312 

35,565,316 



61 ,616,636 



4 

I960 

34,227,096 

34,100,3*6 



66,335,642 



5 

1964 

43,126,506 

27,176*799 



70,303,305 



6 

196S 

31*275,166 

31,763,400 

9,906*403 


72,967,049 



T 

1972 

29,170*774 

47,163/234 



76,336,COS 



B 

1976 

*0,920,929 

39,146,940 



79,977,669 



9 

|90O 

35,481 ,435 

43,699/240 

5*719*437 


05,100,120 



10 

I9B* 

37,377*165 

54,435,073 



92.032*260 


Q 






e 


A Data Entry window with 
figures representing the 
popular votes cast in 
presidential elections* 
This data serves as the 
basis for all the graphs 
shown here. 


84 M A C U S E R NOVEMBER 1986 













































* Fils Edit Dots Graph turiwfll Goodies Format* 


Untitled 



Data From "Post-War Pros. Elections* 

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194 9 953 959 960 964 96B 972 973 90fl 904 
hhHiu 


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VaUr 


02J070 
31,244 
1 t,63B 
35,64? 
03,305 
67J049 
36,009 
77,869 
00,120 
32,260 


Cricket Graph's first try 
at graphing data is some¬ 
times less than perfect. 
Pointing and clicking on 
the image itself will allow 
users to change a label of 
the ¥ scale, move a leg¬ 
end, and enlarge the 
graph to better accomo¬ 
date the election year la¬ 
bels on the X scale. 


d Hie Edit Palo Graph turgent goodies formats 


I Pres Elect Grpft I 


Data from ‘Post-War Pres. Elections* 



41 Vet,? 


DrtWflr*!* 

RtpubUcini 


1948 1 952 1956 I960 19*4 1966 1972 T97* 19$D 1 904 

EMItif 


JS 


,402,070 
,251 .244 
.616.638 
,335.642 
,303,305 
,967,049 
,336 ,000 
,977,869 
,100,1 20 
,032,260 


A little nip and tuck works 
wonders. The same graph 
of election data altered 
for a better fit. 


* File Edit Data Graph cur Lie FM Goodies Formats 


I Relative Performance I 


Data from ‘Post-War Pras. Elections* 



* IB * i$ SES8S8 


ratal Vein 




M 


46,402,070 
61,251,244 
61,616,630 
68,335,642 
70,303,303 
72,967,049 
76,336,000 
79,977,869 
05,100,120 
92,032,260 


A double Y graph, illus¬ 
trating the relative perfor¬ 
mance of the major par¬ 
ties, plotted from the 
same data. Cricket Graph 
allows you to view the 
same data in a variety of 
ways. 




File Edit Data Graph Curve Fit Goodie* Formats 
Major Party Uotes f~r-f—Vj 


_ Data from "Post-War Pres. Elections" 



6 



Vutai 


40,402,070 
11.251 .244 
61,616.638 
J9,335,642 
70,303,305 
72,967,049 
76,336.009 
79,977.869 
95,100,120 
92,032.260 





1 948 1952 1 956 I960 1964 196619721976 19B0 19B4 
EtaoHcU 


m 


The Add Depth option 
from the Goodies menu 
adds a three-dimensional 
look. 


Stineman Interpolation routine, 
which differs from an ordinary re¬ 
gression curve in that it plots 
through all the points in a graph. 
Whenever a curve is fitted to a 
graph, its underlying equation is 
'shown at the top of the graph. This 
equation may be included with the 
graph, moved about like any other 
label, or be deleted entirely from the 
image. Once plotted, any of these 
curves can be erased without dis¬ 
turbing the rest of the graph by 
using the REMOVE option. 

IMPORT/EXPORT 

Cricket Graph accepts data from a 
variety of sources and, conversely, 
both the graphs and data sets gener¬ 
ated with Cricket Graph may be easi¬ 
ly moved to other programs. Data 
saved by Cricket Graph is stored in a 
standard text file format. The data is 
stored by rows. Tab characters sepa¬ 
rate the columnar entries, and a 
carriage return separates each row of 
information. Transferring these files 
to other programs that accept text 
files is a straightforward process. 

Import and export of small 
amounts of data can also be done 
using the Clipboard. Bringing in 
larger data sets, however, is more 
efficiently accomplished by import¬ 
ing die entire file directly. Cricket 
Graph can read files stored in either 
text or SYLK format, but it must be 
""forced" to do so. “Forcing” here 
simply means that the icon of the 
data file and that of Cricket Graph 
must both be selected and then 
opened together. 

Data from other sources '(main¬ 
frames, minis or other micro sys¬ 
tems) can be telecommunicated to, 
your Mac. If these ASCII text files 
do not arrive in the necessary colum¬ 
nar form, transfer the material to an 
editor or a word processor first to 
add the proper tab and carriage 
return characters, and then bring the 
information back to Cricket Graph . 

Exporting the graphs and charts 
created in Cricket Graph is also a 
simple process. Programs that accept 
bit-mapped graphics, such as Mac¬ 
Paint, or MacWnte, can only receive 
Cricket Graph output via the Clip¬ 
board or the Scrapbook. For pro¬ 
grams that employ the PICT format 


NOVEMBER 1986 MACUSERS5 




































































































DISSECTING CRICKET GRAPH 


{such as MacDrmv or MacDraft ), 
Cricket Graph allows you to store 
your graphs in this format when you 
save them to disk. 

GET IT IN WRITING 

Since it is so easy to move Cricket 
Graph images to other programs, 
printing the graphic results will of¬ 
ten take place in a different applica¬ 
tion, However, sometimes full inte¬ 
gration within another document is 
not only unnecessary, but undesir¬ 
able. At those times, the simple, bur 
more than adequate, page composi¬ 
tion capabilities of Cricket Graph will 
seem invaluable. When you select 
the PRINT or PLOT option from the 
File menu, you are presented with a 
Page Layout window. This window 
displays a scaled-down image of the 
page about to be printed with a 
miniature version of the graph in the 
forvvardmost active window super¬ 
imposed on the page. Any other 
graphs on-screen (possibly buried 
several windows down) are also dis¬ 
played alongside the page shape. All 
the available graphs may be moved 
on or off the page, resized, or over- 
laid one atop another. If you have 
created more than one version of a 
particular graph, the Page Layout 
window will allow you to see how 
the different versions will look with 
each other. When the page is com¬ 
posed, clicking OK begins the print¬ 
ing or plotting process. However, 
page layouts must be set individually 
for either printer or plotter. If you 
change your mind and decide to use 
the other output device, you must 
lay out the page from scratch again. 

Naturally, Cricket Graph offers di¬ 
rect output to the ImageWriter 
printers. If you Ye using an Image- 


A Line graph illustrating 
the popular vote tallies of 
Democratic candidates. A 
Simple Curve, from the 
Curve Fit menu has been 
superimposed. The equa¬ 
tion used to generate the 
curve has been applied as 
a label. 



Writer II, color printing is support¬ 
ed. And, since the coior information 
is an integral part of the graph itself. 
Cricket Graph output may be repro¬ 
duced in color even when it is em¬ 
bedded within otherwise mono¬ 
chrome files like Mac Write 
documents. Cricket Graph output 
also prints both quickly and well on 
the LaserWriter. 

Along with the ImageWriter, 
Cricket Graph supports a number of 
popular plotters. Drivers for the Ap¬ 
ple Color Plotter and for the Hew¬ 
lett Packard 7470A, 7475A, 755GA, 
and Color Pro, are included. Even if 
the plotter you are currently using is 
not on this list, contact Cricket Soft¬ 
ware. They may have a driver avail¬ 
able for your hardware. There are 
also several customized versions of 
Cricket Graph available for particular 
system set-ups, 

IT S HOW YOU SAY IT 

Writing good documentation is 
something of a black art. Finding the 
proper balance between clarity and 
brevity is never easy. Tbc User's 
Guide accompanying Cricket 
Graph is exceptional because its au¬ 


Cricket Graph's Page 
Layout window showing 
three graphs generated 
from the election data. 
These graphs may be 
moved on or off the page 
at will. Only those left on 
the page will he printed. 


| Edit O&tfl Graph Curve Fit Gnotfl&i Formats 




I Cancel ) Grid: O On ® OfT 


thor has managed to achieve this 
balance. This manual, at 270 pages, 
might at first glance appear to be too 
long. But, in this case, the length is 
the result of a combination of large 
easy-to-read type, numerous illustra¬ 
tions, and a well dioughr-out organi¬ 
zational structure. 

The manual begins with a short 
tutorial. Chapters 2 through 13 pre¬ 
sent a complete discussion of each 
facet of the program. Every menu 
selection is detailed, virtually all the 
dialog boxes are illustrated, and the 
consequence of each selection or 
option is explained. 

The final section of the manual 
consists of appendices. A short dis¬ 
cussion counseling the judicious use 
of the many features available in the 
program is followed by useful tech¬ 
nical Information concerning file 
transfers, plotter interfacing, the use 
of Cricket Graph with MacDraw and 
Switcher, and the internal organiza¬ 
tion of the program itself. 

WHAT'S IN A NAME 

These days, one would expect ap¬ 
plications such as Cricket Graph to be 
called Business Plan Graphs or some 
such pseudo-serious name. In fact, 
the microcomputer industry has be¬ 
gun to rake itself so seriously that 
were Apple to be founded today it 
would probably be called Pomme 
Business Machines. So it is, to say the 
least, refreshing to again encounter a 
program with a “lighthearted” name. 
Still, I cannot help but wonder 
whether with a name like Cricket 
Graph this program might not be 
perceived as being too frivolous for 
corporate use. 

(continued on page 175) 


86MACUSER NOVEMBER 1986 



































































Get noticed* applauded — maybe 
even promoted — when you break away 
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The length of time that each frame 
is displayed automatically defaults to 
3 seconds. But that duration can be 
set to minutes, seconds, and even 
tenths of seconds just by double¬ 
clicking on the sequence's duration 
box. Each frame can be individually 
rimed. 

Repositioning specific frames is 
easy and quite Mad ike. Just select 
what you want to move, either CUT 
or COPY it, and paste it wherever you 
want to. The same frame can be used 
as often as you like in the story¬ 
board. And the UNDO command is 
intact, just in ease you make a mis¬ 
take. 

Editing the sequence in which 
each frame will be shown is done 
from the master list screen. Whole 
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The main screen. Here, 
users preview and choose 
images and decide how 
tong each frame will re¬ 
main on-screen. Special 
effects, such as dissolves 
and wipes, are also se¬ 
lected here. 


word, such as Erase, would do a lot 
more good than the icon's poor 
visual due. Why docs everyone who 
designs for the Mac assume that, just 
because we want simple to use pro¬ 
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cut, copied or pasted into different 
sections. The duration of each scene 
can be set up easily as well, with the 
entire process controlled by menus 
and dialogs that leave little to 
chance. 

MOVING PICTURES 

Storyboarder is not an animation 
tool in any sense of the word, al¬ 
though the program does allow art¬ 
ists to create limited special effects in 
the program's Aniniatic mode. Here, 
fields can be flipped, erased, moved 
around on the screen, enlarged, 
zoomed in or out on, or panned, all 
with a few clicks of the mouse but¬ 
ton. With a little creativity, the ef¬ 
fects can be quite good. Up to four 
effects can be chosen per scene. 

The aniniatic icons are used to 
access each effect. Some of them are 
self-explanatory; but in other eases, a 


although this option can be used to 
mock up a number of other special 
effects. Once an image has been 
selected, the direction of its flip is 
determined by where the cursor is 
clicked next on the screen. For exam¬ 
ple, clicking at the top or bottom 
center of the screen results in a 


vertical flip; clicking at the right or 
left center gives a horizontal flip. If 
you want to vertically and horizon¬ 
tally flip the image, click in any of 
the screen's corners. Finally, the 
number of times the object will flip 
is determined by how many times 
the mouse button is clicked. A sim¬ 
ple dialog box with a few radio 
buttons would have been far more 
efficient and would significantly re¬ 
duce the program's learning curve 
here. 

The drag move is much more 
straightforward. To move an object 
around on the screen, just select it 
with either the rectangle or heart- 
shaped freeform tool and move the 
cursor to where you want the picture 
to move. Storyboarder faithfully 
tracks the cursor movement, and 
replays the image to follow it exactly, 
pausing where it pauses and stop¬ 
ping where it stops. An object can 
even be moved off the screen entire¬ 
ly, just by dragging the selection tool 
until it disappears off the top or side. 

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FRAME BY FRAME 


limited full-screen animation is pos¬ 
sible through the use of the Burst 
mode. This plays back approximately 
24 images per second. When not in 
Burst mode, the shortest duration 
you can have a single frame on the 
screen is 0.8 seconds. A hard disk 


first image will immediately replace 
the second, making frames 1 and 2 
contain the same image. 

Stoiyboardcr accommodates four 
different screen widths: standard 
television, MacPaint format, theatri¬ 
cal motion picture, and wide screen 



The Animatic mode gives 
users easy access to limit¬ 
ed animation effects, 
such as zooming in or out, 
flipping images or moving 
across the screen. 


brings the screen duration down to 
0.3 seconds, if you need it. The 
program is not optimized for the 
Mac Plus, although it works just fine 
on one. 

THE EDITING DECK 

Up to nine images can be dis¬ 
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screen at once, thanks to the mon¬ 
tage option that lets users choose 
single, two-frame, four-frame, six 
frame or nine-frame display. (The 
Widescreen display format is too 
large to accommodate nine images, 
though.) 

In montage modes 6, 2 and 1, 
there is space provided below each 
graphic for typing in description or 
dialogue. Just select SHOW NOTES 
from the Notes menu and a small 
note window appears beneath each 
frame displayed. Just type in what 
you want. To view only the picture. 
Choose HIDE NOTES. 

In montage displays, you can rear¬ 
range frames through the START 
SHUFFLE option. When chosen, this 
puts small numbers in the upper left 
corners of each graphic. For exam¬ 
ple, the first frame displayed would 
have two boxes, each numbered 1, 
the second image’s boxes would each 
contain a 2, and so on. To swap the 
position of the first and second im¬ 
ages, you would drag the small box 
on the right into the second frame 
and release the mouse button. The 


motion picture (the latter gives the 
effect of a 70-mm projection). Each 
(except MacPaint) is included on the 
disk as a MacPaint template, which 
makes it easy to design your images 
to whichever screen specification 
you choose. (If you choose not to 
use the templates, Stoiyboarder auto¬ 
matically crops the screen to reflect 
the type of screen selected.) 

PLAYBACK 

There are three different playback 
options included in Stoiyboarder . 
Normal mode plays back the images 
in sequence as they appear on the 
master list, obeying all the rules 
you’ve set up for time, animation 
and special effects. When the entire 
storyboard has been shown once, the 
playback stops. 

The ROLLING option plays back 
the entire sequence, but when it 
reaches the end of the storyboard it 
automatically starts again. 

The QUICK option plays back the 
storyboard in rapid sequence, but it 
only captures the bare bones of the 
concept — animation, frame dura¬ 
tion and special effects are ignored. 

PUTTING IT TO PAPER 

Finished storyboards (or w'orks in 
progress) can be printed out through 
the ImageWriter, or, if you take the 
time to install its driver in the Sys¬ 
tem, on the LaserWriter. The print 
mode is unique, allowing users to 


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print our specific frames and for' 
mats, but it isn’t optimized for use 
on the LaserWriter* 

Any of the montage types (from 
one image per page to nine) can be 
printed our, and the notes window 
(which contains dialog or camera 
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All formats, including wide 
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Stoiyboarder is the first of an antic¬ 
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American Intelliware can work out 
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those of us who work with both 
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Trade Ftmnan Hines is the Senior Editor of 
MacUser . 


STORYBOARDER 

Overall Rating 

Follows Mac Interface 
Printed Documentation 
On-Screen Help 
Performance 
Support 

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which unfortunately means you can't 
simply move a data disk from one 
computer and use it in another com¬ 
puter. The disks might be the same, 
such as 3-Vi-inch single density and 
the programs might be the same, 
such as Multiplan. However, if the 
operating systems are different, that 
is, the instructions that tell the com¬ 
puter what to do 'with the program 
instructions, then you can't make the 
transfer of data without a communi¬ 
cations program and the appropriate 
hardware. 

Why not just have the same type ol 
computer in an office? 

Sounds like a logical idea, but 
many offices have purchased differ¬ 
ent computers at different times and 
for different reasons and uses. Some 
computers arc purchased because of 
how the keyboard feels, how easy it 
is to look at the screen for long 
periods of time, that is, good resolu¬ 
tion, how easy the software is to use, 
the price and the software available. 
These are all good reasons, although 
some are better than others. The 
computer is purchased to do a par¬ 
ticular job and the user needs to be 
comfortable using it. 

However, because of the varia¬ 
tions of computer systems available, 
the speed with which computers are 
being developed and changed, and 
the variety of personal computing 
tastes, it is easy to fill an office with 
incompatible computers. That is, 
computers that don't work directly 
together. 

OK t understand, but what about 
transferring data between the comput¬ 
er on my desk at home with my 
computer at the office? The same type 
of computer, but a different location. 

That can be done in a number of 
ways. One way is to have a direct 
connection between the computers 


BY PAMELA J. ROTH 


PEOPLE WHO, UNTIL RECENTLY, 
knew very little about using a com¬ 
puter are now communicating across 
the country to other computers and 
computer users. They are saving 
time and money by not preparing 
and taking packages to the post 
office nor waiting for pick up by the 
express service messenger. Commu¬ 
nicating by computer sounds like 
something worth doing, but what 
does it all mean? How> is it done? 

A good way to learn any new 
subject is to Find an expert and sit 
and talk to that person. Since tele¬ 
communication experts are still a bit 
rare in most areas {although you'll be 
one soon enough), we've put togeth¬ 
er a conversation like one you might 
have with such an expert. 


You, The Reader, I'm interested in 
learning about communications — 
what is it? What can it do for me? 
What equipment do I need to commu¬ 
nicate? I don’t know anything about 
communications — can you help? 

The EXPERT: Those are the right 
questions to begin with! 

Then you can help me? 

Yes. Ill start with basic informa¬ 
tion. Very simply, communications 
is the transfer of information be¬ 
tween computers at the same loca¬ 
tion or different locations. 

Why would I want to communicate 
between computers at the same loca¬ 
tion? 

Because you might have two or 
more different kinds of computers 
with different operating systems. 


STEVE HAEFELE 












TELECOMMUNICATIONS 


over the telephone lines. Another 
way is to use an electronic mailbox 
service. You send information to a 
mailbox and then the person who 
owns the mailbox transfers the infor¬ 
mation to his or her computer at 
another time. 

Let’s consider the direct commu¬ 
nications link. The computer at 
home is hooked to a modem that is 
hooked to a telephone or directly to 
the phone line. On the other end, 
the computer at the office is hooked 
to another modem, which is also 
hooked to the telephone or directly 
to the phone line. 

In this type of communication 
process, one computer sends and the 
other computer receives. Someone 
on the sending end gets the commu¬ 
nication system going by hooking 
the modem to the computer and the 
telephone. Once the hardware is 
ready, the user gets and makes sure 
the file to be sent is properly format¬ 
ted or unformatted as the case may 
be. 

What does that mean? 

It means that commas and line end 
characters arc in the correct place, 
and special formatting characters are 
either correctly coded or not there at 
all. 

Sounds technical, time consuming 
and prone to aggravation. 

The process of checking a file, 
especially if there are more than a 
couple of pages, can be time con¬ 
suming and frustrating if you do it 
manually. There are special pro¬ 
grams that you can use to check a 
program to make sure it is formatted 
correctly before sending it over tele¬ 
phone lines. 

Also, the more file handling op¬ 
tions a communications package has, 
the less likely you will have to check 
your files manually. 

Hmm, I’ll keep that in mind. What 
happens next? 

The sender follows the instruc¬ 
tions to send, or upload , a file to the 
computer at the other end. But there 
are a few steps in between. 

The sender dials the number of 
the other computer, or if he has a 
modem that dials automatically and 
software that stores telephone num¬ 
bers, the computer will dial die num¬ 
ber. 

The receiving computer must be 


hooked up and ready to receive. If it 
isn’t, the computer operator must 
hook up the computer and get it 
ready to receive the information. 
When both computers are ready, 
transmission can begin. 

If the receiving computer has the 
required hardware and software, the 
computer can answer the telephone 
and get ready to receive the informa¬ 
tion automatically by preset instruc¬ 
tions. 

That’s great. That automatic pro¬ 
cess sounds wonderful. 

Yes, but at this time it’s considera¬ 
bly more expensive dian the basic 
communications hardware and soft¬ 
ware. 

However, there arc times when 
having the ability to automatically 
dial up another computer becomes 
less expensive. I’m thinking of when 
commercial databases are used regu¬ 
larly. 

What difference does that make? 

Commercial databases can be ex¬ 
pensive during prime hours, usually 
regular working hours between 8 
AM and 6 PM. The actual prime 
hours vary from database to data¬ 
base. Communicating also ties up 


the computer and telephone lines 
during regular business hours when 
others need to use them. 

By using a system that automati¬ 
cally dials at a specified time, you can 
have the computer and telephone 
lines free for regular business use and 
get the information you need while 
you are away from the office. 

Certain precautions must be taken 
with this system. 

Oh? Such as.... 

You must make sure that the sys¬ 
tem has an automatic disconnect that 
is correctly working. Since most da¬ 
tabases charge by the minute or 
fraction of an hour, if the computer 
is not disconnected after finishing its 
search, you could get back to the 
office and find you are charged for 
several hours of database time that 
you didn’t intend to use. 

Ouch! 

Yes, but now we’re getting too far 
into advanced topics. Let’s get back 
to the basic information. 

Basic communications consists of 
sending information from one end 
and receiving at the other end. Send¬ 
ing is called uploading and receiving 
is called downloading . 









LET’S TALK TELECOMMUNICATIONS 


The terminology is a bit strange. 

I find it easier to comprehend if I 
think in terms of a constant wave¬ 
length that travels overhead. When I 
want to send information, I put it up 
into the wavelength, thus uploading. 
When I want to receive someone 
else’s transfer I take it down from the 
wavelength, thus downloading. 

Back to communicating directly. 
When sending and receiving infor¬ 
mation over the telephone lines you 
must use software on each end that 
understand each other. 

Does that mean I have to use the 
same communications software pack¬ 
age as the computer I am sending to 
or receiving from? 

That might make it easier, but not 
necessarily. You must however, use 
software that has the same handshake 
and error correction protocol. 

Could you explain that? 

Certainly. This is where we get 
into technical aspects of communica¬ 
tions. First of all, a handshake makes 
sure the receiving computer gets 
everything that the other computer 
is sending. Sometimes one computer 
sends faster than the other computer 
can receive. A handshake , such as 
XON/XOFF, simply slows down the 
transmission so that it is received 
without getting lost. 

Next, an error correction protocol , 
such as XMODEM, checks to make 
sure that the information received is 
correct. If there is an error in the 
transmission, the protocol sends a 
message back to the sending com¬ 
puter to retransmit the part of the 
transmission that was muddled. 

To remember the difference, think 
about a handshake as a connection 
and an error correction protocol as 
what happens after the handshake, 
after the connection is made. The 
error correction protocol answers 
the question: “Is the received infor¬ 
mation correct or have uninterpreta- 
ble characters been received because 
of noise on the telephone lines?” 

What about sending to an electron¬ 
ic mailbox? How is that different? 

Using an electronic mailbox has a 
number of advantages and disadvan¬ 
tages over using a direct modem 
link. 

First, electronic mailboxes are of¬ 
ten commercial services that you 


need to subscribe to, such as West¬ 
ern Union’s EasyLink. Even after 
you have paid the subscription fee, 
which is most likely a yearly fee, you 
sometimes have to pay a minimum 
monthly usage fee. You also pay for 
each minute that you are connected, 
which means such activities as 
uploading information to someone 
else’s mailbox or downloading infor¬ 
mation to your mailbox. 

Next, you and the person you 
want to communicate with must 
subscribe to the same service. If you 
communicate with a number of dif¬ 
ferent people or organizations that 
could mean you will need to sub¬ 
scribe to a number of services, which 
could become costly. 

Finally, although there are pass¬ 
words so that only you can read the 
information in your mailbox, the 
longer information stays in your 
box, the more time a competitor or a 
cracker has to break into your mail¬ 
box. 

Those are the disadvantages, but 
the advantages are strong enough to 
balance the disadvantages for many 
users. The biggest advantage is that 
you can send a simple message or 
document of several pages to the 
mailbox without having your intend¬ 
ed receipient ready to receive. You 
can use almost any modem and com¬ 
munications software, and the in¬ 
tended receiver can use different 
equipment. Just as long as it works 
with the service. 

Hmm. So, communications is more 
than just sending information to a 
computer at another location? 

Very much so. Communications 
also includes transferring and frans- 
lating files between otherwise in¬ 
compatible systems at the same loca¬ 
tion; searching databases for data 
required for clients or internal use, 
such as finding precedents for a law 
suit or distributors for selling a prod¬ 
uct; as well as sending and receiving 
information fast , hamig conferences 
with people in different locations, 
and leaving information where some¬ 
one can retrieve it at a later time. 

This all sounds pretty expensive, 
especially paying by the minute for 
databases. How do I know if commu¬ 
nications is worth it? 

Using commercial databases defi¬ 


nitely requires knowledge of logon 
procedures and skills in defining 
search criteria to minimize costs, but 
with practice you can use a database 
efficiently with great savings in the 
long run. 

To determine the net value of 
adding communications ability to 
vour computer system you must 
weigh the initial cost of purchasing 
the software, hardware, and any re¬ 
quired membership fees along with 
monthly minimum fees and actual 
usage fees against predicted savings. 
Savings come in the form of less 
time expended searching and re¬ 
searching, less paper to manage, less 
time producing, sending and receiv¬ 
ing reports, less time to get answers 
to important questions. In short, 
potential for more profit. 

How do I shop for communications 
software? 

Before shopping for communica¬ 
tions software make a list of your 
communications needs. Ask yourself 
these questions. 

Do I need file translation be¬ 
tween different brands or versions of 
word processors, database managers, 
and spreadsheets? 

What extra features do I need, 
such as auto-dialing and auto logon? 

What handshake and protocol 
does the intended receiver use? 

Then when deciding which soft¬ 
ware package, apply your list of 
needs and ask these questions. 

Does the software have the stan¬ 
dard handshake and protocol? 

Does the software have the extra 
features that I need? 

Is it compatible with the modem 
I intend to use? 

Having communications software 
features without matching features 
on the modem you use is akin to 
having cursor key features in a word 
processor but no cursor keys on your 
keyboard; you have useful features, 
but no way to use them. So, for 
example, if you purchase software 
with an auto-dial feature, make sure 
the modem you plan to use has an 
auto-dial feature. 

Thank you very much. This conver¬ 
sation has been very helpful. 

My pleasure. ^ 

Pamela J. Roth is a Boston-based technical 
writer and documentation author. 


98MACUSER NOVEMBER 1986 








AppleTklknetworks 
communicate better after 
a little bridgework. 



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c 1986 Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc. 


It took Hayes, the PC com¬ 
munications leader, to bridge 
the gap between AppleTalk 
networks. 

Introducing Hayes 
InterBridge.™ There's nothing 
like it! 

Now one AppleTalk net¬ 
work can communicate with 
another. Across the hall. Across 
town. Or across the country. 

Its a local brid ge, that lets 
you share information with other 
AppleTalk networks in your com¬ 
pany. Or, if one network becomes 
overloaded, InterBridge allows 
you to split that network and 
split the workload. 


It's a remote brid ge, that 
lets you share information with 
AppleTalk networks everywhere. 
All it takes is one InterBridge and 
one Hayes Smartmodem 2400,™ 
on each end. 

And it permits casual access 
to expensive p_eripherals by both 
local and remote AppleTalk net¬ 
works. InterBridge allows you to 
access a LaserWriter,™ file servers 
and gateways on another network, 

Hayes’ 

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even if they're thousands of 
miles away. 

This feature alone can save 
thousands of dollars you'd other¬ 
wise spend on dedicated peripher¬ 
als for each of your AppleTalk 
networks! 

No matter how you look at 
it, or how you use it, Hayes 
InterBridge is quite a bargain. 
Now you can get a lot of fancy 
bridgework, without a fancy price. 

See your authorized Hayes 
dealer for details. Or contact 
Hayes at 404/441-1617. 

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The latest generation of flight programs tn 


proved the Mac to be a true flying 
machine. 

The Mac version of Flight Simula¬ 
tor is every bit as playable as the 
original. In fact, some Mac-unique 
features make it a bit better. The 
main game window consists of a 
half-screen window showing a three- 
dimensional view corresponding to 
what would be seen from a plane’s 
cockpit. The lower half of the screen 
displays a cluster of gauges and con¬ 
trols, very similar to those on a real 
plane. You won’t find laser cannon, 
missiles, or magic super thruster but¬ 
tons here. What you will find are 
most of the controls that are in the 
cockpit of a real Cessna light aircraft. 
The mouse serves various functions: 
as a control yoke (controls thrust 
and direction), and as a selector (for 
menu and control selection). 

A second three-dimensional win¬ 
dow can be opened. This window 
can be set to display one of a selec¬ 
tion of views our or the plane {back, 
front, sides or midpoints between 
these) at the same time that the 
forward (cockpit) view is active. The 
main view can also be switched to 
various other vantage points, such as- 


TIME IS ALWAYS CRUEL. PARTICU- 
larly for gamers. If they’re not racing 
the clock, the passage of time makes 
game programs less powerful, less 
topical — and less exciting. Pro¬ 
grams that were state of the art a 
year ago are also-rans now. The 
S1000 you spent on 384K of RAM 
last year will buy you over 2 mega¬ 
bytes now. 

In our February 1986 issue we 
reviewed three good flight simula¬ 
tion programs. Now there’s a new 
generation that surpasses these old¬ 
er, but still good, programs in all 
aspects. The new programs are bet¬ 
ter simulations, better games and 
better examples of using the technol¬ 
ogy. And they’re no more expensive. 


IN THE AIR 

Microsoft’s Flight Simulator is the 
standard flight simulation m the 
IBM PC world. It’s so much a 
standard, that it’s used to test the 
graphics compatibility of PC compa¬ 
tibles. It uses a variety of colors to 
help the digital pilot visually distin¬ 
guish between the sky and the 
ground, and to pinpoint crucial 
landmarks, such as cities, airports, 
runways and other structures. 

flCjh M ac version was a very long 
time in coming and there was much 
talk that it couldn’t be done; that for 
■fence the Mac’s lack of color would 
be fatal. Microsoft finally rose to the 
k challenge and, in doing so, has 








UP AND AWAY! 


ton', bringing you right up to the 
back of the plane in flight. 

Pilots have a choice of aircraft. 
There are two (actually, three, if you 
have at least 512K of RAM) types of 
planes that can be flown. The first is 
a Cessna 182 single engine propel¬ 
ler-driven plane, the second is a 
Gates Learjct 25G jet. The Cessna 
offers a truly realistic flying experi¬ 
ence, while less attention has gone 
into making the jet fly like the real 
McCoy. The jet is tun to fly, and 
manuevers much more smoothly 
than the Cessna. The third plane is 
an advanced WWI fighter, ready to 
fight enemy Fokkers to the death. 
There are hostile airbases to destroy, 
fuel depots to blow' up and factories 
to bomb. It's a nice addition to the 
Mac version (it's not in the PC 
version), but not the main thrust of 
the program. 

The geographical database in 
Flight Simulator is its most incredi¬ 
ble feature. The “world” in which 
you can fly measures roughly 10,000 


by 10,000 miles. The area consists of 
the continental United States, with 
extensions into Canada, Mexico and 
the Caribbean. There are 118 air¬ 
ports, located mainly in New' York, 
Boston, central and northern Illi¬ 
nois, Seattle, Los Angeles and San 
Francisco. These can be used to 
refuel, or as VOR beacons by which 
to navigate the plane. Major and 
not-so-major airports are included, 
so don't worry about finding an 
airport. Worry about landing. That's 
the hard part (just like real flying). 

Because this simulation is in real 
time, it actually takes hours to tlv 
from one location to another. Take 
off from Oakland Airport in the 
morning, set the autopilot for New' 
York, and when you come back from 
a late lunch, your jet will be ap¬ 
proaching JFK. For impatient pilots 
who w ant to sec most of the scenery 
in die Flight Simulator database 
without the wait, a Slew mode al¬ 
lows you to fly at very high speeds. 
Make believe that you're in the Air 


Force’s newest experimental plane, 
zipping along at 40,000 miles an 
hour. In Flight Simulator , it can be 
done, and w'ith full maneuverability. 
The phrase “hard bank to the left” 
takes on a new' meaning. 

All the graphics in Flight Simulator 
are shaded, and there is also a wire¬ 
frame mode that updates the screen 
quicker, resulting in smoother out- 
the-window views. The details of 
objects will probably disappoint 
most Mac people (New York City 
consists of the World Trade Center, 
Empire State Building, Manhattan 
Bridge and Statue of Liberty), but 
it’s a big country, and in order to get 
the whole database on a single disk, 
some of the finer details of the 
landscape had to be omitted. 

The sound effects in Flight Simu¬ 
lator will perk up your cars. They’re 
digitized from real airplane engine 
sounds. The Cessna's prop spins 
around noisily, the Learjet's engines 
hum smoothly, and the WWI fighter 
sounds suspiciously like the Cessna. 
As you vary throttle, the pitch of the 
engines changes accordingly. This is 
yet another place where the Mac 
version outshines the PC offering. 

As a pilot, you have full control 
over environmental conditions such 
as the season (summer, winter, fall or 
spring), time of day, cloud covering, 
ground fog and wind. (That’s a 
feature real pilots would like to add 
to the real w'orld.) Two cloud layers 
and four wind levels each have inde¬ 
pendent controls; using combina¬ 
tions of these factors, virtually any 
type of weather situation can be 
accurately reproduced. 

The reliability of the plane can be 
set between 0 and 100 percent. A 0 
percent setting will introduce many 
quirks into the plane’s operation: 
instruments randomly fail or display 
incorrect information, or the engine 
will die in midair (not a happy 
prospect). 

Start off at 100 percent. That’s 
real enough. At 100 percent your 
engine will die out if the throttle is 
increased too quickly, or the plane's 
lights w ill burn out if left on for too 
long. 

The various planes in Flight Simu¬ 
lator can all be controlled through 
the keyboard, with diagrams in the 


New York City by night, 
approaching from the 
general vicinity of the 
Statue of Liberty. Note the 
World Trade Center in the 
foreground, the Brooklyn 
and Manhattan Bridges to 
the right, and the Empire 
State Building in the left 
background. 


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The main window displays 
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Flying over San Francisco 
on a sunny day. This is 
what can be seen several 
minutes after taking off 
from Oakland Airport. 



This somewhat over¬ 
whelming screen appears 
only at the beginning of 
the program to show what 
the control panel of the 
shuttle really looks like. 



Mission 




manual illustrating all of the keys 
and their respective functions. This 
is the way that the plane is flown on 
the PC version. Mae people will 
probably want to use the mouse to 
fly, although you may prefer to do 
some things using the keyboard 
(turning the overhead map on and 
off, or to zoom in and out of a view, 
for example). 

Flight Simulator gives you the 
chance to work with some of the 
standard navigational instruments 
that are likely to be found on any 
real plane, including VOR (Very 
high frequency Omnidirectional 
Range), ADF (Automatic Direction 
Finder), DMH (Distance Measuring 
Equipment), and an autopilot. Each 
airport has its own VOR beacon 
number, so that the autopilot can be 
set to home in on one and guide 
your plane in the direction of it. 
VORs can also be used as marker 
points on which to determine your 
location. A brief discussion of the 
operational aspects of VOR is in¬ 
cluded in the manual. 


A COM radio supplies informa¬ 
tion about weather, airport and ap¬ 
proach factors. Each airport has its 
own ATIS (Automatic Terminal In¬ 
formation Service) frequency, which 
is reached via the COM radio. The 
NAV radios arc used to tunc in to an 
airport's VOR beacon. Two NAV 
radios are provided, making it easy 
to cross check the plane’s position 
against more than one beacon. 

Flight Simulatin' has what is prob¬ 
ably the strangest version of the Mac 
interface seen to date. Yes, there arc 
pull-down menus, but they don’t 
seem quite as smooth as they should 
be. Windows work, but the go away 
box is tiny. There's a noticeable lag in 
the response of the interface in gen¬ 
eral. Until you’re accustomed to it, it 
can be a hindrance. 

Although the program will work 
on a 128K Macintosh, some of the 
features aren’t present. The WWI 
fighter game mode isn’t accessible, 
there’s no sound and no prerecorded 
situations library. Both the manual 
and the 128K help screen mention 


that other features don’t work as 
well, but don’t detail which these 
are. 

The documentation does a morc- 
than--adequate job of explaining all 
of the program’s functions and nu¬ 
merous controls, as well as providing 
maps with the VOR headings of all 
the airports, and diagrams of most of 
the landing strips you’re likelv to trv 
to land on. 

At any point, the flight in progress 
can be saved to disk, to be continued 
at a later time. Included on the disk 
are some prerecorded situations, 
such as a flight in New York harbor 
(the Statue of Libert)- is the first 
thing you see), a take-off from Meigs 
Airport in Chicago, and others. An¬ 
other menu selection allows individ¬ 
ual situations to be listed and de¬ 
leted. 

This is considered a game in the 
IBM PC world', the 'best-selling 
game on the PC. But it isn’t really a 
game. The Macintosh version is ev¬ 
ery bit as serious as the PC version, if 
not more so (and even has a larger 
terrain database). In order to hilly 
take advantage of Flight Simulator, 
you have to learn it to die point 
where you’ll probably find yourself 
looking for a way to test out your 
newfound skills in something more 
than a microcomputer simulator. 
The controls and feel of the simula¬ 
tor will be enjoyed most by real 
pilots. The graphics arc good, but 
not up to the expectations of most 
Mac owners, who will he looking for 
their little summer house on the 
New Jersey shore. All in all, Flight 
Simulator, Macintosh style is the way 
to fly. 

INTO SPACE 

Orhiter is a space-shuttle simula¬ 
tion, It’s an overwhelmingly won¬ 
derful introduction to space flight, 
sans danger. 

The designers and programmers 
of Or Inter have used books, tapes 
and other materials, many of them 
provided by NASA, to construct an 
extraordinarily real simulation. With 
painstaking effort, the Orhiter crew 
duplicated the intricate control pan¬ 
els and operating mechanisms of a 
shuttle; built in detailed and accurate 
launch, orbiting and landing proce- 


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UP AND AWAY! 


durcs and used Apple's MacInTalk 
speech program to simulate voice 
communications with Mission Con¬ 
trol. The result is a simulation that 
feels very real, as real as one can 
when you are actually driving a Mac¬ 
intosh and not a space shuttle. 

A great deal of care was taken to 
make sure that OrbiUr is fun to play 
as well. Toward this end, there are 
16 missions built into Orbiter y rang¬ 
ing from a training mission that 
involves deploying a space telescope 


to the step by step construction of a 
space station. Several of die missions 
require you to manipulate the shut¬ 
tle's robot arm or to leave the ship 
and use a Manned Maneuvering 
Unit (MMU) to “walk” in space. 
Although you learn fairly early 
into die first mission that a real-life 
pilot actually has very little control 
over a shuttle, you can disable the 
automatic computer controls and 
rake over operation of die shuttle 
manually. This adds an extra dimen¬ 


sion to the play of Orbiter. You also 
have the convenient option, general¬ 
ly not available in actual flights, of 
picking the portion of a mission you 
want to simulate (launch; orbit, 
which includes in-flight activities; 
landing — or all three). 

Another feature designed to make 
die game more playable is Time 
Compression, which lets you speed 
up die passage of time as much as 40 
to 1 when nothing is happening that 
requires action or attention. Time 
Compression kicks in automatically 
at several potentially boring points, 
or it can be accessed any time the 
shuttle is not accelerating. Even with 
diese accommodations, the pro¬ 
gram's goal is to be a simulation first 
and game second, so sometimes the 
complexity and sophistication of Or - 
biter gets in the way of playability. 

When you first load Orbiter , you 
see an astoundingly complex array of 
instruments, controls and gadgets 
called the Forward Main Station. At 
one point in the design stage it was 
thought that this panel might work 
as the actual playing screen, making 
the simulation even more realistic. 
However, cooler heads prevailed so 
diis somewhat overpowering screen 
only appears once. Whenever a new 
game is started, the screen is divided 
into four display windows and the 
controls of the Forward Main Sta¬ 
tion arc split out into panels. 

It's vitally important to select the 
TRAINING MISSION option the first 
time you play Orbiter , or when you 
first come back to it after a long 
absence. The training mission is de¬ 
signed to introduce novices to the 
basic controls and procedures in a 
simple way, and to offer a good 
chance for success in your first mis¬ 
sion. The Orbiter manual takes you 
through the training mission step by 
step, suggesting that you pause at 
certain points to read a description 
of what you can expect to happen 
next. Following this “tutorial” is a 
great way to learn when the most 
significant periods of a mission occur 
and which screens need to be dis¬ 
played at crucial points so you can 
find the information you need in 
order to maneuver or land the shut¬ 
tle successfully. 

As you prepare for launch, an 


Tlie control panel displays 
can be replaced by this 
world map. The black dot 
over Australia indicates 
the shuttle's current posi¬ 
tron in relation to tbe 
Earth. 



This configuration of the 
display rets you compare 
the view out the window 
with a map showing tme 
position. The display in 
the upper right comer in¬ 
dicates the Orb iter's ori¬ 
entation — black on top 
means the Orbiter is cur¬ 
rently upside down in re¬ 
lation to Earth. 



The back view out of the 
shuttle with the bay doors 
open. The controls in the 
upper left window operate 
the Remote Manipulator 
Arm. 



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outline of the Forward Main Station 
sits in the lower right window. Any 
portion of this control panel can be 
brought to the screen by selecting it 
in the outline window, then selecting 
a window where you want it to 
appear. Initially, the windows dis¬ 
play the Control, Engines and CRT 
sections of the Main Station, the 
ones that must be on screen for a 
launch. 

The CRT displays a log of the 
messages transmitted by Mission 
Control and specific instructions — 
to load computer programs, close 
vents, start engines and so on. There 
are actually three CRTs which can be 
configured to display a variety of 
data. At some times during a mis¬ 
sion, it is necessary to switch back 
and forth among the three. If the 
message screen is not displayed 
when a message comes through, the 
program will beep to warn you. 

You can also display the Aft, or 
rearward view, where you will Find 
the controls that open the bay doors, 
deploy payload and operate the ro¬ 
bot arm. 

Control panels are not much fun 
to watch, especially if you’re sup¬ 
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whole universe to look at. Fortu¬ 
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dows of the shuttle, both front and 
back. The front view becomes avail¬ 
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You can’t look out the back until you 
have achieved a stable orbit and you 
open the bay doors. Orbiter *s win¬ 
dow view graphics have a nice level 
of detail, bur they don’t move very 
smoothly. 

In addition to the window views, 
you can fill the entire screen with a 
map of the world. A large black dot 
indicates the position of the shuttle 
with respect to the Earth below. 

One interesting way to pass time 
during a slow part of the game is to 
display the map on one of the CRTs 
and have a window view of the 
Earth above it. In this way you can 
see your position in relation to the 
Earth from both vantage points at 
the same time. 

After you have been through the 
training mission and you feel fairly 
confident about your skills as a shut¬ 
tle pilot, the next step is to try a 


more taxing mission, one that re¬ 
quires a little more initiative and less 
hand-holding. You might try a Satel¬ 
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shuttle’s orbit with that of a defec¬ 
tive satellite, leave the safety and 
security of the craft in the MMU to 
retrieve the damaged hardware, and 
repair it in mid-space walk. 

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the robot arm and the MMU, can be 
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tion. Special menus appear when 
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Grabber menu and one for the 
MMU. If you are within a certain 
distance of an object, such as the 
wayward satellite mentioned above, 
you can simply select the name of the 
object from the appropriate menu 
and it will automatically be grasped. 

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motions to bring you to the object, 
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arm. Walking in space can be a lot of 
fun, but you need to keep in close 
visual contact with the Orbitcr, (the 
MMU has a window view) or follow 
its movements carefully on one of 
the display screens. The manual pro¬ 
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for controlling the MMU. 

Finally, when you think you’re 
ready for the ultimate test, try to 
handle launches and landings man¬ 
ually, The computer still handles 
many operations, but you have to 
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very dose eye on the drop rate, angle 
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so nicely puts it. Even with all your 
skill you may run into difficulties 
because technical problems and oth¬ 
er surprises can crop up at random. 

Orbiter is a brilliant simulation, 
and a very good game. It would be a 


106MACUSER NOVEMBER 1986 





great game if it weren't such a great 
simulation. At certain times it can be 
very slow, while at others, especially 
landing, you find yourself jumping 
from screen to screen in rapid succes¬ 
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not very accurate, which can make it 
difficult to control and maneuver 
one object in relation to another. At 
such times, it is best to rely on the 
status display on the CRT, which 
gives very accurate angle and dis¬ 
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The manual is very well done, if a 
bit technically obtuse at times. Nev¬ 
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and exciting. ^ 

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Overall Rating 


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Defeating the dragon by skill alone . 


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more than a little useful. So read on 
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have. 

PLAYING THE GAME 

The object of Shanghai is to clear 
the game board of all its 144 tiles, 
two by two. Simply choose exact 
matches and remove them from the 
board. 

Not necessarily. If there were only 
two of each type of tile, things 
would be pretty straightforward. But 
there are four tiles to each set. And 
when the game begins, quite a few 
of those tiles are hidden in stacks. 


Players can tell how deep a stack is 
by looking at the border around each 
square tile. A thin line means the tile 
has nothing hidden underneath it. 
The thicker the border line, the more 
tiles remain under the bordered tile. 

Real strategy comes into play in 
choosing which tiles to remove, and 
when. For example, it may not make 
sense to remove a particular set of 
matching tiles when you can see 
three out of the set of four. That’s 
because you never know where the 
fourth matching tile will show up, 
and take a chance on trapping it, 
possibly under its own exact match, 
unless you try to figure out vour 
strategy logically. 

MAKING MATCHES 

There are three different suits of 
tile: Bam, for Bamboo; Crak, which 
represents “characters”; and round 
Dots. 

In addition to these “suits,” there 
are Seasons (one of each), Flowers 
(one each of four different kinds). 
Winds (North, South, East and 
West) and Dragons (four of each 
type). Suits must match exactly — 
only the four of bamboo can be 
paired with another four of bamboo 
— but Flowers match any other 
Flowers, and Seasons match any oth¬ 
er Seasons. This is all well explained 
by an illustrated dialog box accessed 
through the game’s Help menu. 

UNRAVELLING THE DRAGON 

The game board is laid out in 
what the manual calls a dragon for¬ 
mation. And if you look, you can 
almost see it — the dragon’s feet arc 
the long, unstackcd rows at the very 


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top and bottom of the formation. Its 
head is the thick collection of tiles at 
the right, and its tail is the group at 
the left. Of course, the thickest part 
of the formation represents the drag¬ 
on's body, in the very center of the 
game board. 

The opening moves in any game 
should center on uncovering the 
four center stacks by removing the 
middlemost tile. This frees up the 
top tiles on the four thickest stacks, 
which usually contain enough criti¬ 


cal matches to keep the game mov¬ 
ing along for quite some time after¬ 
wards. 

Your second objective is to con¬ 
centrate on removing the two tiles 
that obstruct the entire right side of 
the game board's movement. Third, 
remove the one tile that holds the 
left side in check, and finally, try to 
whittle the top and bottom rows 
down to size. 

In many new games, you won't be 
able to make those crucial early 


matches easily. When that’s the case, 
concentrate on digging your way 
through to whichever tiles you need 
to uncover the pinnacle of the drag¬ 
on’s spine and either of its two sides. 
If, say, a four of craks blocks the four 
thickest stacks in the center, and you 
can’t find another four of craks any¬ 
where on the board, it means that 
the three tiles which can remove that 
four of craks are buried somewhere 
beneath the stacks. Just play through 
as much as you can, concentrating 






SHANGHAI SURPRISE 


A randomly generated 
game board. The first 
thing on the agenda is 
freeing up the center 
stack. Luckily, all four two 
of bamboos are showing 
on the screen. 




We chose the closest two 
of bamboos because we 
don’t think it will be that 
hard to “dig" through the 
top row for the other two. 
Of course, the double 
nines will probably pose a 
real problem later in the 
game. 


The next step is to free up 
the right side of the 
screen by removing the 
dragon’s head, the two 
tiles farthest to the right. 



on removing tiles from stacks to free 
up what’s underneath, and you 
should find die tile you’re looking 
for without too much trouble. 

DEALING WITH THE DREADED 
“SHANG-EYE” 

Shanghai's tiles arc each very 
small, and although they’re quite 
pleasing to the eye, too much of a 
good thing can make you almost 
dizzy with eye fatigue. This is espe¬ 
cially true when the game first be¬ 
gins, since there are so many tiles to 
look at. You can tell you’ve been 


staring at the screen too long when 
you stop caring which of diosc tiny 
tiles is the right match, and start 
removing whichever ones you can at 
random, just to clear the screen a 
little. 

The best way to alleviate Shang- 
eye is to stop looking at the screen 
for a little while. That’s right, stop 
playing for a little while. (If you’re 
playing a timed game, pull up one of 
the dialog boxes from under the 
Help menu. It pauses the timer.) Get 
a drink of water. Call your mother. 
Or just look out the window. When 


you sit down to the game again, 
you’ll be surprised at how much 
better it will all look. 

And you’ll probably sec four or 
five matches that you hadn’t noticed 
before. 

THE THREE-TILE DILEMMA 

Because so many tiles arc stacked 
one on top of another, you can’t see 
where all the matches might be. And 
it’s not uncommon to play all the 
way through until you have only six 
or eight tiles left, only to lose in die 
eleventh hour because a critical tile is 
still hidden beneath another one. 

Whenever you can avoid it, don’t 
remove tiles from a threesome. Try 
to wait until the fourth tile shows 
up, so you’ll at least have a good idea 
as to what will be involved in remov¬ 
ing it. Sometimes you’ll be forced to 
make the move against your better 
judgment, either because it’s the 
only thing left open on the board, or 
because it’s blocking another tile that 
you need to reach immediately. 
When this happens, shrug your 
shoulders and do it. Just realize that 
it’s a move of last resort. 

“LEGAL” CHEATING 

There are several built-in cheat 
options available, and those of us 
who peck under the cards in solitaire 
games will appreciate the ways they 
can skew the odds in our favor. 

Here’s a prime example: a neat 
little option called BACKUP A MOVE. 
When you select it, the computer 
automatically reverses the last move 
you made. Select it again and the 
game board backs up again. You can 
keep selecting BACKUP A MOVE until 
the entire game board is restored to 
its original position. (Of course, the 
easiest way to fully restore the game 
is to select the REPLAY SAME GAME 
menu option instead.) BACKUP A 
MOVE can be used to help restore a 
move you belatedly realize you 
shouldn’t have made. Or, you can 
use it to peek under a specific tile 
without being forced to commit to 
that particular move. 

The SHOW ALL MOVES option is 
useful when you’re pretty sure 
you’ve played every move on the 
board. Sometimes, selecting it will 
show you something you hadn’t re- 


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SHANGHAI SURPRISE 



Here, we're digging 
through the tiles to find 
the five of craks, which 
matches the five of craks 
that immobilizes the far 
left- 


Stuck? Select show all 
moves from the Help 
menu, K T $ cheating, but it 
can save you a lot of 
frustration. Hot to men¬ 
tion eye strain. 



alized you could do. Lazy players can 
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especially when they're about to suc¬ 
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option during tournament play. 


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Like chess, Shanghai is played best 
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center of the upper or lower line? 
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the line, then the second and third, 
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enough to make your critical match. 

PLAY IT AGAIN, CHAN 

The best thing about Shanghai is 
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board, no matter how hard you try. 
When you’ve finished working your 
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SHANGHAI m 

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work for outputting both text and 
graphics. 

The high-level routines are intend- 


When you have to 


see it on paper, here's 


how to do it 


ed for outputting formatted files in a 
fashion that duplicates a document's 
appearance in a Macintosh window. 
In fact, the high-level routines sim¬ 
ply incorporate a special form of 
grafPort, and use standard Quick¬ 
Draw routines to produce the image 
oil the printer. Text output with the 
high-level routines can be in any font 
used by the Mac, but will be printed 
in a graphics mode, which means it 
will be slow. Low-level routines, on 
the other hand, use die Image- 
Writer's internal font to print draft 
quality text very quickly. Inside Mac¬ 
intosh points out that the low-level 
and high-level drivers cannot both 
be open at the same time. We'll keep 
this fact in mind when creating our 
program. 

LOW-LEVEL ROUTINES 

As usual we'll be working TML 
Pascal. The first listing shows sample 
procedures that demonstrate the 
low-level procedures for text- 
streamed and bit-streamed output. 
PrintText demonstrates how to open 

BY STEVEN MARTIN 


a text file and print it. In order to 
avoid the problem of which printer 
driver is open, call the PrDrvrOpen 
procedure at die first pa it of Print- 
Text and PrDrvrClose at die end. 
Then make a call to PrCtlCall with 
the instructions to Reset the printer. 

Our own routine getMyfile calls 
the Macintosh toolbox routine 
SFGetFile to present the standard 
selection dialog with only TEXT 
files displayed. In order to make the 
program compatible with HFS use 
SetVol with tlic volume reference 
number (vRefNum) of the selected 
file. If this is not done, then the file 
manager would just look at the fold¬ 
er our application is in, and the file 
might not be found, resulting in a 
system error. 

If the filename is valid, PrintText 
proceeds to read each line of the text 
file and print it to the screen. 
Note the PrCtlCall (printer control 
call) routine to define some simple 
procedures that function as string 
and character printers. The proce¬ 
dure CRLF uses the predefined val¬ 
ue of IPrLFSixth which sends a car¬ 
riage return and standard one-sixth 
inch linefeed to the printer. Format¬ 
ting of the output is simple in this 
example; we only convert tab charac¬ 
ters to five spaces. With a little work 
this routine could be used to create a 
nice printing application for format¬ 
ted text files. 

The other primary procedure that 
makes use of the low-level printer 


NOVEMBER 1986 MACUSER119 






THE FEEL OF PASCAL 


driver is Screen Dump. This routine 
simply sends a bitmapped image of 
the Macintosh screen to the Image- 
Writer in the same manner as the 
COMMAND-SHIFT-4 key. Note that 
PrCtlCall is passed the message iPr- 
BitsCd, which defines a bit-stream¬ 
ing mode of printing. It is then 
passed the pointers to die bitmap we 
wish printed, as well as the rectangle 
that contains this bitmap. Two 
modes of bit-streaming are support¬ 
ed: IPaintBits and IScreenRits, 
IPaintBits justifies die graphics for 
the taller dots used by the Image- 
Writer so the picture looks identical 
to that on the screen. IScreenBits 
docs not do this, so the picture will 


appear slightly squashed. This low 
level routine can be used to make 
hard copies of windows and dialog 
boxes. 

HIGH-LEVEL ROUTINES 

Our program contains one exam¬ 
ple of the high-level routine calls. 
PnntHigh first creates a handle to 
the print record that we will use. It 
then opens the high-level driver with 
a call to PrOpen, and sets the value 
of the print record to the defaults for 
the particular driver being used. 

There are two dialog boxes that 
everyone is used to seeing when 
printing on die Macintosh. The first 
is die Style Dialog box, which re¬ 


quests information about the size of 
paper being used and whether to 
print lengthwise or along the pa¬ 
per’s width. This dialog box is usual¬ 
ly associated with a Page Setup... 
menu item under the File menu. The 
second box is die Print Job Dialog, 
which asks how many pages we 
want, and which pages of the docu¬ 
ment are to be printed. If the Draft 
check box is selected, only text will 
be output. The PrJobDialog usually 
appears when the Print... menu item 
is selected. In order to simplify 
things our program will call each of 
the printer dialogs when a single 
menu item is selected. If the user 
presses the CANCEL burton for either 


HARD COPY 


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tnMMi: App J imtiffrw : ^ j cp J « sflSyat *■-' /rttf. ip« 

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{Si toPQNH:ApplicationsiPaaeal :Pase*lSyaram:HacPcint . ip+3 


Low i«vii Routines; 


—i 


PmcHdu.ro gstrtyfile{ »*r fn;5t r2SS]; 

I FUrtrt 1 UJ3 to got 111* name through StGotPll* rOuEijii. Also 
flotJ tAe vnlum td (fret v* thm selected til* 30 char the Opar\ 
procedure, hci-^ prsjMfJy with HFi. } 


EpLyi a f reply; 

typeliati a£ rypeLilt; 
trhare: paint; 

nawit: OS Etrc ; 


where. v :« 5&; 

where.h E- 80; 

typaliatlfl] :* "TEXT '; 

ST&etrile 4 whet a, *' , Vi 1. t ype list, nil r tp 1 y P; 

fa i- 1 ’i 

if tply.good Then 
Begin 

T« awl t : * SftVol tltil. rp1y r vfifl £«pinj i 
fn ;« rply-fnenw; 

End; 

End; 


P i o c a du r* p rintTe xt; 


£: text; 

ItJC, 

f ilfl-naw; 3tr255; 

1 : . Integer; 


Begin 

PrPtT x0 p*n : 

PcCtlCallUPrBewCil,lPrReset,fl,Opj 

getHyfile (fil*diiA«]; 

If Ellenem* <> "' Then 
Begin 

Open if. f Henana]; 

Ra«4t(fjif 


while not aafjf) do 
l>*gin 

meadln(t,itr) s 

roc i 1 to Length (atrl Vo 
Begin 

If - cbr(9) ¥hen 

PtintSteingr h p 

Else 

p r i n tchr (31 r T i- ] 1; 

End; 

CULT 

and; 


Close I f }i 

■ad; 

PaDrtJcCloia; 

Ind; 


Procedure ScreehDujnpj 


Bog in 

PrDrerOpem; 

PrCtlCell I iPrl>*vCtl. lPrRo^et, 0, a> i 


FrCtlCellllfrflitaCtlj LdcglntSireirtBitai,LCflglntE0SCreenBita.bCunddJHIPaintBits] 
PrDryiCloae; 


(* 


High tmvml Hputints; 


) 


Procedure PrintGrephlx(PiPiMft; HifldpvPtrl; 


V*r 

OldPert: HindowPti; { Tq 3tt>r* the correct poet to } 


Procedure CR-LF; ByPect E 

Begin 

FrCtlCeli I iPfOevCtl, IFrUSIxth, Op *i; 

End : 


Procedura PtintstringIPS; Str?55): 


Begin 

PrCtlCallUfrlOCtl,iongtnt(8P$|1J1. length|PS|, *> ? 

End; 


Procedure PrintChr (chi Chert; 

Begin 

FcCtlCell|iFrlCC11,Longlet Etch} f 2, 01 ; 

End; 


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THE FEEL OF PASCAL 


of these, then die routine returns a 
value of false and we don’t need to 
procede with printing* 

Once the dialogs have been an¬ 
swered satisfactorily, we call PrO- 
penDoc to open the document to be 
printed. This returns a grafPort, 
which we call ThcPrPort, where the 
drawing routines can be sent* We 
then call PrintGrafix to make stan¬ 
dard QuickDraw calls for the print¬ 
out* These graphics will be sent to a 
disk file until the ClosePagc and 
QoseDoc arc called, at which time 
the file will be spooled to the printer* 
Note that while this form of printing 
is referred to as spooled printing, it 
is not a multitasking, or background 


process; the processor must still be 
used full time until the printing is 
finished. Normally a dialog box 
should be put up, which shows that 
the user may stop the printing by 
using the COMMAND-PERIOD keys. 

After the document is closed, we 
check for die spool file and send it to 
the printer with a call to PrPicFile. 
This done we can close the printer 
driver and dispose of die printer 
record used for the process* 

This series has taken us from a 
simple Shell program developed in 
TAIL Pascal, and, shown how, by 
laying in our own functions and 
procedures, we could create applica¬ 
tions for the Macintosh. 


Remember that the listings that 
accompany this article are code frag¬ 
ments. These routines are to be 
added to the full Shell program 
created in the first wo articles of the 
series. The first part of this listing 
shows all of the include files needed 
by the print program. The second 
part shows the new routines which 
are added, as they are shown, direct¬ 
ly after the SetUpThings procedure 
in the Shell program. Finally, we 
show how the SetUpMenus, Pro- 
cessMenu_in and main program 
blocks arc changed to accommodate 
the new routines* ^ 

Steven Alartin is a Denver-based program¬ 
mer and author . 


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Sftlorb [OltlFsrt] t 
BetFOJtttPrPprt} J 


t Jiv* the torrent pert f 
f tfse the printer port for Output J 


Begin 

xdt«tu c( 2 4 $-(String width ( 5 1 2 ) 1 t y); 

m**!t ring (S3 ; 

End; 


Set met (r-yPoct, SO, 30, HO, 3D0) ; 
t i 1 1(myRect}; 

TiHMRttt (myReet} t 

TextFont 4 Monaco); 

Textdlre{l2)i 
KflwTa|5(,5D) j 

DctvStriqg( 1 Thls li u axxqpl* of High Level printing."}; 

Hro*Tet30 H G3); 

DzxuStrlng("These 1*0 lines *r« in Monaco \% point font,"); 
TeztTont(Systeafent]j 
NswTo(iO H 65} J 

DrmStrlng ("Nov we tE« in Chicago Cert [The System font}."); 
MoweTo!S0,1AD}; 

Dxiw£trlngI'Hel* then we must change line position by using'] 
HoveTo{5G,115}* 

DrewStrlngt"the Move7o coound. ■ 1 : 

TiitT^nt(geneva); 

TextSlre f3) r 

MoveTo (30,130); 

Driesttring£"The n»=*s of the quw is Hove end draw!'); 

Textsiie(12); 

Kot*To(5Q, 135 )1 

DrawString i 4 Theta ell folke... 1 !: 


Procedure ShowTitle; 


ft: sect; 

picH; Picttindla; 

Begin 

SntRectIH,0,0,493,300); 

IrtfeReet (R); 

InvslRectdtl 1 

picH CetvLsdbvr1c(syKlndeH|; 

KillBiettixe [picK) f 
pifH e- OpenPictureIH}; 

CenterText C39 r "printer Demonstretions "]j 
ConterText(00,"Copyright C 1396 + >: 

CentstText! 6 0, 1 For MaeUser Hagaiine 1 }; 
CefiterTiitUOO. "5y Stevnn Martin'}; 

Cente next (160, "F lease make a Menu Selection"); 

Cloairlctur*; 

BatWindevPiciByHlndow,pleHJ; 


9*tPort (QldPoEt) j [ Return output to our window ) 

*ndr 

Procedure PrintHigh; 


ThePtPoct: 
TheStPect 
ThePrft: 
ThoFrint: 


JPPrPom; 
TPrStltus 
Tnptint; 
TP tint; 


Begin 






/ 

_/„.*.___...... 

Changes' to rile Menu Setup; 


I 


MonuTopic NavKenu{FileKanu, "File"); 

AppendHenu(MenuTopic, 'Print Text.'DuBp Screen; Print high Level; (-"}; 
IppendHenu 4 Hanoi op ic, 1 gu 11 /Q "); fhao a Feytoa ref ogu i viJ one .) 

InsertHenu(HannTopic, 0); 


Thep EH :- THPrin t SMb vHand le 4SiiaOf4TheP Eint) ] ) ; 

BrQpen; f opoo tha High Jewel driver J 

PrlntDafiult tThqPrR); f Set to the default sotting^J 

If FrStic1 1 log (ThePrH) Thee 

If PEJebBlelog [TfceFrK} Then 
Begin 


ThftPrPOrt PrOpenDoe)ThePrll,Mll,Hil); 

Sr-OpenPage ( 7 hnFrPQFt, Milt ,’ 

PeI ntG raphix{windowPtr(ThePrPort)); 

SrCioaePag*nhePrftort): 
w rCloeeDoc(ThePrPor11; 

If {The P rlt' *. p eJ ob. bJDocLoop - bSpoolLoop) Then 


If Filiior - NoDee Then 

PrPicFile{ThePrH,Hil,Hil,Hll, TheStRec )1 




Changes to PrceeanNantWji 

FileMenu; 

begin 



Cie* 

Item_Ho Of 

1: FrintToxt; 

2 : ScroenDunp; 

3; ( Lin6 Ite- J J 

4; PrintNigh; 

5; { iine Item } ; 

f: Finished True; tQu± t) 


end; 

end; 

f C*B9 } 


Changes to Tho Main Frogremr 


BESIK { Kiln program J 


DiepoaHandle mendlo(ThiPrK)|; 
prCloie; 


f---—-------- 

Display cur progru Title 


InitThinge; 
SetUpThinga; 
SetPort tuyWindow); 
ShoVTitle; 

HlinEva nttoop; 
CloseThlnga; 


Procedure CenterTuxt[y; Integer; S: Str355); 


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Note Pad as you write, then 
paste the desired text from 
the Note Pad into the end of 
the document, or at the bot¬ 
tom of appropriate pages in 
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ONTARIO, CANADA 

Although text and 
graphics can't be placed 
side-by-side in Aloe Write, 
footer and header variables 
(page number, time and dace) 
can be placed on top of past¬ 
ed-in graphics* This can be 
used to creative advantage, 
such as a decorative picture of 
a clock with the footer/header 
time icon placed on its face* 
Gail Lesley 
SKOKIE, 1L 


MacWrite sometimes 
cuts off the last letter of 
an italicized word at the end 
of a line (especially when the 
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When printing in Draft 
mode on the Image- 
Writer, I avoid using headers; 
use footers instead. When 
headers are used in Draff 
mode, the printer has to roll 
the paper back after printing 
each page in order to print 
the header. This drastically 
increases the chances of a pa¬ 
per jam in the printer mecha¬ 
nism. By putting pertinent 
information into a footer in¬ 
stead, the printer doesn't have 
to wind back, saving time* 


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HFS LOCATOR PLUS 

£ Whcn used from the 
Finder t a file that is 
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will launch directly from die 
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stead of the LAUNCH AFTER 
QUIT command (which ap¬ 
pears when used from within 
any other application), 
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MA55APEQUA, NY 


FINDER 

Sometimes the heaps 
and piles of folders on 
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impossible to find a particular 
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er's window to the fore¬ 
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dimmed icon (usually easier 
than finding its window), and 
double dick it. 

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When using the custom 
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that are already in use in the 
application. Combinations 
such as COMMAND V, X, C 
(Paste, Cut and Copy) are 
obvious; check the applica¬ 
tion's menus before making 
any new combinations. 
Roger Waterford 

CAMBRIDGE, MA 

THUNDERSCAN 

Sometimes a thin hori- 
» 7xmtal line of distortion 
appears across a scanned im¬ 
age. This is usually attribut¬ 
able to die white tape strip 
that is supposed to be 
wrapped around the left end 
of the I mage Writer's platen. 
After extended usage, the end 
of the strip curls up or frays, 
and confuses the Thunder - 
Scanncr.Try adhering the end 
of the strip back to the platen 
with a small dab of glue, or 
replace it altogether. 

Sharon Eppelstein 

RENO, nv 

FILE 

Normally, hitting tar 

in File moves the cursor 
to the next field. However, 
Tab characters can be gener¬ 
ated by holding down the 
OPTION key as the TAB key is 
pressed. If data with embed¬ 
ded tabs is exported to a word 
processor, for example, the 
tabs will respond to the tab 
settings in the word proces¬ 
sor, facilitating the creation of 
formats such as tables. Care 
must be taken, though, if that 
same data is to be used in 
another database program. 
The receiving database may 
confuse thcTab characters for 
field delineators, and garble 
the transfer. 

Kathy Rieter 

PHILADELPHIA, PA 


124 MACUSER NOVEM BER 1986 















































Next field 
Same record 


font is to be displayed in — 
other sizes work here as well. 
William Schasee 

SAN FRANCISCO, CA 

jxT| Version 2.1 displays an 
ISJ error message if it finds 
a Tab character before a label 
name. 

Nancy Pinola 
DETROIT, Ml 


mg. If MacWritc runs out of 
memory, it will simply stop 
loading the file, and display 
whatever it can load. If you 
notice that there are lines 
missing at the end of the file, 
try giving Mac Write a larger 
partition. 

Carol Masur 

SALT LAKE CITY, UT 


Ftk takes advantage of arrow moves the cursor to the 
the cursor keys on the same field in the next record 
Mac Plus keyboard. The right (replaces COMMAND'ENTER). 
arrow moves the cursor to die The up arrow key moves the 
next field (replaces TAB or cursor to the same field in the 
return). The left arrow key previous record (replaces 
moves the cursor to the previ- SHIFT-COMMAND-ENTER), 
ous field (replaces shift-tab Richard Kgetz 
or SHI FT-RETURN). The down MIAMI, FL 


When printing reports 
^§3 on the LaserWriter, 
rules (separating lines) print 
as dotted lines. If font sub¬ 
stitution is selected from 
the Page Setup dialog, these 
lines will print solid. 

Craig Jones 

RYE, NY 


MULTIPLAN 

If you’ve accidentally 
forgotten the password 
to an important spreadsheet, 
there is a way to regain access 
to it. Using a disk editor 
(Fedit, MacTools, Mac Zap), 
open the spreadsheet docu¬ 
ment, find block 3, part A, 
position 0079. If the spread¬ 
sheet is protected, then this 
location should contain a 01. 
Change it to 00, save the 
changes (write the sector to 
disk), and die spreadsheet 
should now be unprotected. 


er : What most people don't 
know is that any comments 
entered into the Get Info dia¬ 
log box are actually stored in 
the desktop, resulting in the 
loss of all comments when the 
desktop is rebuilt. 

Thomas Haber 
BOULDER, CO 

MS BASIC 

Although MS BASIC 
allows the programmer 
control over different font 
styles and sizes for die output 
window, there is no obvious 
way to change these for the 
List and Command windows. 
In order to do so, use the 
POKE commands “POKE 
&H98 5, 4: POKE 

&H987,9”. The 4 represents 
die font ID number (in this 
case, Monaco). Substitute the 
ID of the font that you want 
things to be displayed in. The 
9 is die point size that the 



SWITCHER 

pgh. If a startup set of appli- 
VJ| cations has been set in a 
file named “Switcher.Start¬ 
up”, it can be bypassed by 
holding down the OPTION 
key when launching Switcher ,. 
Fred Reinert 

ATLANTA, GA 

SliH, If you allocate too 
t=-I small a Switcher parti¬ 
tion to MacWritc, it may 
truncate text files that you try 
to open, without any warn- 


FONTS 

It’s no longer necessary 
to go through pro¬ 
gramming tricks to get the 
Apple symbol in your work. 
Simply install any Apple font. 
The Apple symbol is OPTION' 
SHIFT-K in all of them. Type 
in whatever font you want, 
typing OPTION-SHIFT-K wher¬ 
ever you want an Apple, and 
then go back and change die 
square box that appears in 
most fonts to whatever laser 
font you’ve installed. 

Susan Genis 

NEW YORK, NY 


MacLUrite Configuration 


Preferred Memory Size 

144 

Minimum Memory Size 

T 44 


E3 Saue Screen 


l Permanent] l Temporary] 

f Cancel j 


EttV If MacWnte is to be 
til used with the Laser¬ 
Writer, it must be given a 
larger partition than the de¬ 
fault 128K that appears in the 


Configure then Install menu. 
For best results, try a I44K or 
larger partition. 

Barry Samone 

DALLAS, TX 


Daniel Shwartz 

TEANECK, NJ 


Add a new column to a 


I spreadsheet by holding 
down the SHIFT key while 
clicking in the head of the 
column to the right of new 
column’s intended position. 


Christie Franker 

WEST HARTFORD, CT 


FINDER 

Many times it’s neces¬ 
sary' to rebuild the 


ED 


desktop file by holding down 
OPTION-COMMAND when 
booting a disk, or after receiv¬ 
ing a “This disk needs minor 
repairs 11 message in the Find¬ 


MACDRAW 

Current versions of 
MacDraw cannot ad¬ 
dress more than i 1 fonts un¬ 
der the Font menu. For those 
proficient with Fedit or Mac- 
Tools, this limitation can be 
removed. Using one of these 
utility programs, open a copy 
of MacDraw (attempt this 
modification only on a copy 
of the program), and make 
the following changes to the 
file: 

All fonts in the System will 
now show up in the Font 
menu, with the size selections down die menu to see die blc with future versions of 

appearing at the bottom of sizes). Note that files created MacDraw. 

the menu (if there arc many with this modified MacDraw Ion Hardis 

fonts, you may need to scroll may not be fully text compti- WASHINGTON, DC 



FIND 

CHANGE TO 

OCCURRENCES 

41EDFADG 

41 ED F360 

9 

0000 0060 

0000 0CA0 

1 

0GQB FACE 

GDI 6 FACE 

2 

0014 6F02 7C14 

Q01F6FG2 7C1F 

1 

70E1 

7000 

3 

0001 Q0E1 

0001 009B 

3 

10E1 

1 090 

1 

0C47 0015 

0C47C020 

1 

4E56 FFBE 

4E56FF9E 

1 


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Font 


TIP SHEET 

When using MacDrmv 

on the Mac Plus, the 
problem of limited font access 
is compounded by the fact the 
new ROMs order the fonts 
alphabetically, thereby forc¬ 
ing specific fonts into the al¬ 
ready limited font slots. The 
solution is to use ResEdit to 
insert a space before the name 
of each font in the System that 
is to appear in the menu. The 
renamed fonts appear first in 
the menu (as they will for all 
other applications running 
under that System). 

Harold Brenner 

SEATTLE, WA 

► ►►►►► 

When printing a docu¬ 
ment containing text 
on the LaserWriter, be careful 
about selecting more than a 
150 percent enlargement, or 
75 percent reduction: the 
Mac may clip the text, result¬ 
ing in incomplete characters. 
Steven Jenksen 

HOUSTON, TX 


✓Boston 

Rome 

Zurich 

Geneua 

Heluetica 

Monaco 

New Century Schlbk 

New York 

Palatino 

Times 

Uenice 


0 pragma 
OS 

✓ns 

a-o 

m 

m 

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If the Grid in AlacDraw 
has been turned off, it 
can be temporarily turned 
back on by holding down the 
Shift key as you move an 
object. Be sure to press the 
SHIFT key after you’ve de¬ 
pressed the mouse button to 




select the object ro be moved. 
If you press the SHIFT key 
before selecting the object, 
you’ll be making a selection 
“on top of’ the object you 
intended to select. 

David Borne 

CAMBRIDGE, MA 

DISKS 

Tj>n Airline security and 
IT~ll magnetic diskettes 
evoke paranoia in the bravest 
Mac users’ heart. Although 
the potential tor damage is 
questionable, one way to stay 
safe is to place disks in a lead 
laminated pouch designed to 
hold photographic film tor 
the same reasons. The 
pouches can usually be found 
at camera supply stores. 
Maxwell Richards 

SMITHTOWK NY 

If you change your 
disks labels as often as 
you change your socks, try 
Scotch Post-It Cover-up rape. 
It can be written on, will stick 



well to the disk and can be 
easily removed. 

Thomas Lang 

TEMPLE CITY, CA 


FINDER 5.X 


E 


To eject a startup disk, 
drag the icon into the 
Trash. Don’t worry: the Mac 
won’t shut down, as you 
might expect. 


JAD DUWAIK 
AURORA, CO 


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Q There’s a not-so-new 

7 mousing surface that 
most of you own and JiavmT 
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surface works pretty well, it’s 
got more mousing room than 
a standard mouse pad s it call 
be had cheap (check used 
book stores for best price), 
and when you get tired of 
your Mae, it’s instant good 
reading. 

Ann Lewis 

MONTGOMERY, AL 


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Entering certain text 
strings into a cdl in 
Excel sometimes produces 
something other than the de¬ 
sired effect. For example, 
pasting 10A into a cell will 
result in Excel displaying 


10:00 AM (the time). The 
solution is to enter the text as 
a formula. In the above exam¬ 
ple, type =“10A", and the cdl 
will show 10A. 

Donald Clark 

HOLLISTON, MA 


When entering a for- 
muJa into a cell, hitting 
the ENTER or RETURN keys 
confirms the formula, and the 
results will appear in the cell, 
although the formula is saved 
with the sheet. If the Com¬ 


mand and = keys are pressed 
instead, the results of the for¬ 
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spreadsheet, and the actual 
formula is lost {if a new value 
is entered into a variable cdl 
in the formula, the contents 


of the results cdl will not 
change}* This results in a 
small savings in the size of the 
spreadsheet file* 

David Baird 

CHICAGO, IL 

When a group of cells 
is highlighted, the cur¬ 
sor is confined to moving 
within the selected area when 
using the keyboard to control 
it. Using the cursor keys on 
the Plus will move the cursor 
around within the selected 
cells, and when it hits the 
bottom or edge of the area, it 
will wrap around to the other 
side. 

Bert Griffin 

BOSTON, MA 


ANCIENT ART OF WAR 


a When an enemy squad 
with no archers attacks 
your fort, do not zoom into 
the battle. The attackers can't 
retreat and they'll eventually 
be killed. Why? One of the 
game's playing rules is that 


the squad cannot survive an 
assault on a fort without ar¬ 
chers, 

Mike Steele 

MICHIGAN CITY, IN 


LASERWRITER 

fn j When using the Man- 
ual Feed option on the 
LaserWriter, you have 90 sec¬ 
onds in which to place a sheet 
of paper in the feed slot. If 
the paper isn't inserted in this 
time, the LaserWriter will 
time out and cancel the print, 
Barbara Proct 

MASSAPEQUA, NY 


I! i ■ j When printing Image- 
Writer fonts on the 


LaserWriter, always keep die 
largest available size of the 
font in the System file. The 
LaserWriter uses the largest 
size and scales it down. The 
larger the fonts it scales from, 
the smoother die appearance 
of the printout. 

Robert Morrison 

ANN ARBOR, MI 0 


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ANSWERS 
FROM THE 
MAC TEAM 

Got a Mac problem? Something that 
you’d like explained? Something you can’t 
find the answer for anywhere else? Apple’s 
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may month m this spaceWhen the ques¬ 
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B12K Enhanced Questions 

Q. I recently purchased a Macintosh 
512K Enhanced. I also picked up a copy 
of MacUser (July 1986). While reading 
the magazine many questions were 
raised. 

1. 1 read a lot about the Mac Plus and 
the Mae 512K. Nothing was mentioned 
about the Mac 512K Enhanced, What is 
the difference between these three as¬ 
sn mab l v different computers? 

2. The system tools disk that came 
with my computer says “Macintosh 
PlusT Mv computer is a 512K and not a 
Plus! Does this make a difference? 

3. SCSI was talked about. What is 
SCSI, and does my Mac 512K Enhanced 
have it? Also, what is it used for? 
John M. Cluff 

PORTLAND, OR 

A. First, let me congratulate you on both 
your excellent taste in computers and in 
magazines. And now, on to your questions, 

1. The Macintosh 512K (aka “Fat 
Mac**) is basically the original Macintosh 
128K furnished with 256K RAM chips 
instead of the old 64K RAA1 chips. The 
result is simply four times the memory of the 
original Macintosh, 

The Macintosh Plus , f ont both a hard¬ 
ware and a Software perspective, is a signifi¬ 
cant departure fivm the original Macintosh 
architecture. A new mother board (the 


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main circuit board in the machine), twice the 
memory (1 megabyte), mini-din connectors 
instead of the DB-9 connectors on the back 
panel, a new keyboard with a built-in 
numeric pad t an 800K disk drive, and new 
firmware (ROM’s) to support, among other 
things, the new SCSI port and the new 
HFS filing system, are the most important 
differences between the Macintosh 512K 
and the Macintosh Plus. 

Your Macintosh 512K is a hybrid of the 
Macintosh Plus and Macintosh 512K. 
Your machine is essentially the same as a 
Macintosh 512K but you do have two of the 
Macintosh Plus features: (l) an 800K disk 
drive, and (2) the new firmware. Of course, 
the 800K disk drive gives you additional 
storage capacity and the new firmware 
allows you to take full advantage of the 
800K drives and also provides you with a 
number of performance improvements and 
additional features not found in the stan¬ 



dard Macintosh 512K. Should you choose to 
later, you can always upgrade your Macin- 
tosh 512K Enhanced to a Mac Plus! 

2. The Macintosh Plus System 'Tools disk 
you received with your Macintosh 5J2K 
Enhanced will work just fine with your 
machine . The System Tools disk is married 
more to the new firmware (which you have) 
than to the new Macintosh Plus hardware 
(which you don’t have). Go ahead and use 
it.you’ve got the right stuff, 

3. SCSI stands for Small Computer 
Standard Interface. SCSI is simply a well- 
accepted industry standard which defines 
one of many wwyr that a computer can 
communicate with peripheral devices such as 
hard-disk drives. A SCSI device has the 
advantage of being relatively fast and inex¬ 
pensive to design and build , The Macintosh 
Plus has a SCSI port on the back panel 
which allows you to hook up compatible SCSI 
peripherals. You don’t have a SCSI pan on 
your Macintosh 512K Enhanced but you 
can certainly connect non-SCSI peripherals. 


such as an Apple HD-20, to your machine 
and still enjoy the advantages of a hard 
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1.6 Mb Floppys? 

Q, As a Macintosh consultant, I am 
frequently asked what to do in regard to 
upgrading from 5I2K to 1 megabyte, 
new ROMs and double-sided disk 
drives. Recently, while attending an 
Amiga meeting, I heard that Maxell has 
released a 1.6-megabyte floppy disk on 
the market. Can you tell us more about 
this new high-density disk. For example, 
are these disks single or double-sided? 
Can our Apple, DataSpacc and other 
Macintosh compatible disk drives read 
these disks and use all of that space? Arc 
they manufactured by other companies 
such as Sony or Fuji? And finally where 
can we buy them and at what price? 
Thank you and keep up the good work, 
Daniel Roivin 

MONTREAL, QUEBEC 

A. The double-sided, double-density disks 
yon allude to arc indeed in limited produc¬ 
tion by several companies. Advances in 
media technology allow this higher density to 
be possible. However, the manufacturing 
yields arc still low, pnees are high and 
reliability unproven. And even if these new 
disks were available, cheap and reliable you 
wouldn’t be able to use the additional space 
with any existing 400K or HOOK disk drive 
on the market, including Apple’s. The effec¬ 
tive amount of space available to you on a 
disk isn’t simply a factor of the media’s 
capacity. It’s also a matter of the drive’s 
mechanics, electronics and the software and 
firmware which controls reading and writ¬ 
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Apple II as a Print Buffer? 

Q* I would like to know how to turn 
my Apple lie into a print buffer for my 
Macintosh Plus. My printer is an Image- 
writer 1. I also have a 400K external disk 
drive. My lie has an 80-column card, but 
no extra memory. 

JAMES L. RoHITLER 
ORANGEBURG, SC 

A, There’s really no easy way. Fust, the 
way the Macintosh sends data to the printer 
would require you to have at least 1 mega¬ 
byte of memory in a print buffer for it to be 
effective. But your Apple He has a disk 
drive, you say. Why can’t you spool the 
Macintosh print information to your Apple 
lie’s disk and have the lie print it fivm 
there? Entirely feasible, but you’ll need a 
pretty substantial piece of software to accom¬ 
plish it and I know of nothing on the market 


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today that professes that capability. Any 
suggestions from readers ? 


Compaq Connection 

Q* I am a Macintosh user at home and 
work in an IBM environment. When I 
have to do some work at home on my 
Compaq I also find myself carrying a 
printer home at the same time. 

It seems a shame that l have a very 
good printer with my ImageWriter and 
cannot use it. Is there any way that my 
ImageWriter can serve dual purposes and 
work with my Compaq? 

Jerry Allen 

SANTA CLARA, CA 

A* An Image Writer f 8” and 15” 
models, can be used with the AT&T 6300 
and other IBM compatibles running DOS 
2.1. Ton'll need a custom cable, such as that 
from Custom Connection, 4862 Bannock 
Circle , San Jose, CA 95130, (408) 370 - 
0990 . 

Set the printer switches for this configura¬ 
tion: US. Character set, 66 lines per page, 
8 data bits (1 slop bit , no parity), pica 
character pitch, no LF after CR, 9600 
Baud, Data Terminal Ready Protocol. 



On your Compaq you must similarly 
configure the serial port and assign it as 
LPT1 by running this autoexec program: 
mode com 1:96, n, 8,1 ,p 
mode lprl:=coml 

This should also be applicable to the 
ImageWriter II but I won’t swear by it. 
Thanks to Apple Technical Communica¬ 
tions for this bit of info. 


Multiple Questions 

Q. [ will ask this question, despite the 
fact that it will absolutely give me away 
as a novice Mac user (no pun intended): 


How many K's are in a megabyte? 

Concerning the care and safety of 
disks. If I am to understand that disks are 
to be kept away from motors and mag¬ 
nets, then how far away? How danger¬ 
ous is a phone, my ImageWriter, or an 
electric typewriter? I assume ifs perfectly 
safe to transport disks in a car, but how 
about a motor cycle? 

Robert Fein 

NEW YORK, NY 

A, One kilobyte or il K” contains 2 to the 
1 Oth power or 1024 bytes , One megabyte or 
“M” contains 2 to the 20th power or 
1,048,576 bytes. Toms is an interesting 
question because many people think that a 
kilobyte is really WOO bytes and a megabyte 
is really 1,000,000 bytes . But you really get 
more for your money * 

Within a 4 square foot area where I am 
now working I have a Macintosh Plus, an 
ImageWriter t a telephone , a modem, an 
HD-20, and a plastic box full of disits. I 
don’t think I’ve ever lost any data because of 
their proximity (as Bill Murray says “You 
generally don’t see that type of behavior from 
a major appliance”). IPs just a matter of 
common sense. Don't leave disks on top of 
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Unfortunately* the next day I powered 
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BUSINESS ACCOUNTING.138 

COMMUNICATIONS.142 

DATABASES_ 139 

DESK MANAGERS.145 

EDUCATION. 152 

ENTERTAINMENT.152 

GRAPHICS & DESIGN_139 

HARDWARE & ACCESSORIES.162 

INTEGRATED SOFTWARE.138 

LANGUAGES. 150 

MUSIC. 160 

NUMBER CRUNCHING. 139 

ORGANIZATIONAL TOOLS. 144 

PERSONAL FINANCE. 138 

UTILITIES. 146 

WORD PROCESSING. 142 


INTEGRATED SOFTWARE 

Crunch is an icon-driven relational spreadsheet that features 
mi versatile charting and database capabilities. Strong finan¬ 
cial logic, date and mathematical functions. Spreadsheets 
can be linked. The manual is clear and concisely written. 
Macros are not supported. $195. Paladin, 2895 Zanker Rd., 
San Jose, CA 95134. CP (Jan 86) 

Ensemble lets users create a database of words, pictures, and/or 
144 numbers; graph data; generate custom forms and link files 
for applications such as mail merge. Can perform calcula¬ 
tions and math functions on data. Capacity limited by RAM 
and disk size. $299.95. Hayden, 600 Suffolk St., Lowell, MA 
01854. CP 

Excel is THE power spreadsheet. Of the Mac, of the world. Has 
44444 256-column by 16.384-row capability. Features include a 
powerful macro function (with a recorder to make creation 
simple) and elaborate charting facilities. 512K+ Mac and 
external drive required. $395. Microsoft. 16011 NE 36th 
Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399. CP (Prem) 

Jazz provides well integrated modules for word processing, graphs, 
4444 worksheets, databases and communications. HotView is 
best feature. Requires 512K+ and external drive. Version 1A 
requires 800K drive. $595. Lotus, 55 Cambridge Parkway, 
Cambridge, MA 02142. CP (Prem) 

Quartet is an integrated program that works on a 128K Mac, built 
4444 around a powerful spreadsheet with a full range of functions. 
It can also be used as a database and provides good quality 
charts from spreadsheet data. Documentation is adequate, 



but not too well organized. $199. Haba Systems, 15154 
Stagg St., Van Nuys, CA 91405. CP 


BUSINESS ACCOUNTING 

BPI General Accounting is an easy to use system. Six journals. 
4444 AR, AP, Payroll and GL on one disk. Offset amounts automat¬ 
ically post to ledgers. Up to 8000 accounts. Detailed 
records, wide range of reports. Switcher and HFS compati¬ 
ble. $425. Requires 512K+. BPI Systems, 3001 Bee Cave 
Rd., Austin, TX 78746. NCP (Aug 86) 

CheckMark is a Ledger with five preset journals: Cash Disburse- 
4444 ments, Receipts, General, Sales, and Purchases. Menus and 
data entry are very straightforward. Flexible summary reports 
are built in, but customer and vendor information is very 
minimal. $295. CheckMark Software, PO Box 860, Fort 
Collins. CO 80522. CP 

Gallery Finance is a one-write system with General Ledger. Cash 
4444 Disbursements, Payables and Receivables in a single pack¬ 
age. Data entered in a journal is automatically posted to 
appropriate records. Excellent manual includes tutorial on 
basic accounting principles. Requires 512K+, printer and 
external drive. $795. Micromax Systems, 6868 Nancy Ridge 
Dr., San Diego, CA 92121. CP (Dec 85) 

Hardlsk is a complex integrated hard disk system that does not 
4444 use Mac interface. Manual is detailed but complicated, with 
a few pages that make it Mac-specific. Requires hard disk 
and printer. $695 per module. Great Plains, Box 9739, 
Fargo, ND 58109. CP? (Dec 85) 

MacOneWrlte Cash Disbursements is a simple, one-write check 
444 writing system. Limited functionality, but does allow some 
detailed information. Menus clear and easy to follow, but 
check printing can be confusing. Other modules planned. 
512K+ and printer required. $245. Sierra, PO Box 485, 
Coarsegold, CA 93614. CP (Dec 85) 

Rags to Riches integrated accounting modules (General Ledger 
44444 and Accounts Receivable) uses Mac interface to the hilt. 
Information entered in one window automatically transfers. 
No detailed or flexible reporting. Very easy to use, but it can 
be confusing with several windows on screen. Requires 
512K+ and printer. $195 per module. Chang Labs, 5300 
Stevens Creek Blvd., San Jose, CA 95129. CP (Dec 85) 
Strictly Business General Ledger features clear, well-outlined 
4444 set-up procedures and operations. Very flexible, up to 99 
profit centers with up to 100 departments each; and 
customized reports. Program print spools. Requires 512K+, 
printer and external drive. $395. Future Design, 13681 
Williamette Dr., Westminster, CA 92683. NCP (Dec 85) 


PERSONAL FINANCE 

Dollars & Sense is a bookkeeping program. Easy to use. with a 
444 good manual and excellent on-screen help. Will handle up to 
120 separate accounts or money categories. Uses standard 
double-entry accounting techniques. $149.95. Monogram, 
8295 S. La Cienega Blvd., Inglewood, CA 90301. CP 
Electric Checkbook keeps a running account of checkbook 
4444 transactions, balances checkbook to bank statements, 
tracks bills, and prints out checks. Provides detailed finan¬ 
cial statements, calculates net worth, lists expenses by 
category and tracks personal cash flow. $79.95. State of the 
Art, 3191-C Airport Loop, Costa Mesa, CA 92626. CP 
Financial Cookbook provides nearly 3 dozen “recipes” to help 
4444 users figure out financial formulas (i.e., mortgage costs at 
different percentage rates) by inputting pertinent data. Very 
user-friendly. $44.95. Electronic Arts, 2755 Campus Dr., 
San Mateo, CA 94403. CP 

Financial Utilities Pack is a set of applications that allow users 
444 to figure annuities, compound and simple interest, depreci¬ 
ation and amortization. Simple and well documented. $69. 
Cognitive Software. PO Box 26948, Austin, TX 78755. NCP 


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Forecast is a tax estimating and what-if program designed to work 
m with and use Dollars & Sense files. Straightforward, easy to 
use program. $69.95, Monogram, 8295 S. La Cfenega 
Blvd., Inglewood. CA 90301, CP 
The Home Accountant is a complete and easy to use financial 
tm system. Data entry is intuitive. AIT kinds of reports, including 
charts and checks, are easily generated, Entered data will 
update all relevant material $150. Arrays, 11223 South 
Hindry Ave>, Los Angeles, CA 90045, NCR (Apr 86) 

Prom Stalker II is a program for the generation of charts in order 
to organize data on stocks, mutual funds and commodities. 
Data is downloaded to the program or manually entered. 
Free upgrades and excellent support..Requires 512K+ and a 
Hayes-compatible modem. $250. ButtonDown Software, PO 
Box 19493, San Diego, CA 92119, NCR (Aug 86} 


DATABASES 

Business Fllevlslon is a masterpiece of Macintosh programming, 
4444 the only true graphic database on any micro. Much more 
powerful than the original, accepts MacPamt graphics, 
$395. Telos Software, 3420 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Moni¬ 
ca, CA 90405. CP (Feb 86) 

Factfinder is a free-form information organizer (medium-duty 
4444 database). Users enter data onto factsheets in any manner 
desired and select keywords. Searches are by name or 
keyword. $149,95, Forethought, 1973 Landings Dr.. Moun¬ 
tain View, CA 94943. NCR (Feb 86) 

File is a flexible data manager. Creates files for a variety of data, 
4444 including simple graphics. Files are created in simple 
row/column format, but reports and forms are easily custom¬ 
ized by moving field names around on a blank form, $195. 
Microsoft, 16011 NE 36th Way. Redmond, WA 98052, CP 
FileMaker is a nonrelational database that combines lots of power 
44444 with ease of use. Calculation fields make the creation of 
invoices and similar documents a snap. Reports can include 
graphics and multiple data layouts are easy to construct. 
$195, Forethought, 1973 Landings Dr.. Mountain View, CA 
94943, NCR 

Fllevlslon is a simple database that can change the way you think 
444 about data and data organization. Records are based around 
user created graphics screens. Screens and records can be 
linked in complex ways. $195, Telos Software, 3420 Ocean 
Park Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90405. CP 
Helix is a relational database that makes extensive use of icons, 
4444 Setup is easy due to adherance to the Mac interface. The 
manual is clear, thorough and well-indexed. Complicated for 
simple database applications, excellent where a relational 
power is needed. Requires 512K+ and external drive, $395, 
Qdesta, 4084Commercial Blvd., Northbrook, IL60062. NCR 
(Mar 86) 

The Housekeeper is a home inventory database. Users can keep 
m track of assets for both tax and casualty purposes. Special¬ 
ized reports are easily generated. $59.95. Aegis Develop¬ 
ment, 2210 Wilshire Blvd,, Santa Monica, CA 90403. NCR 
(Dec 85) 

Mac Rase is a forms-oriented relational database. Unfortunately, 
444 precise forms are hard to create. Allows calculated fields 
and has quick and powerful search capabilities. Best when 
much data is to be looked up t but not frequently entered. 
Requires 512K+. $195. Eqtron Corp., 330 Bay St. r Toronto, 
Ont M5H 2S8, Canada. NCP (Juf 86) 

MegaFller is a simple file manager. Its limited capabilities have 
44 been far surpassed by cheaper and easier to use programs. 
Valuable only in conjunction with MegaForm, $195. Mega- 
haus, 5703 Oberlin Dr., San Diego, CA 92121. CP 
Omuls 3 is a power database, featuring concurrent multiple file 
4444 management. Can handle 24 files, 12 at a time, and is fully 
relational. Create custom environments including user-de¬ 
fined menus, commands and dialogs. $495. Blyth. 2655 
Campus Drive, San Mateo. CA 94403. CP (Mar 86) 


OvorVUE is a power-packed relational database that has extensive 
44444 sorting, summarizing and report generation capacity. Has 
macros and a charting function. Good manual, It can 
exchange files with a very wide variety of other programs 
(including IBM software). $295, ProVUE, 222 22nd St., 
Huntington Beach, CA 92648. NCP (Nov 85) 
Profeosfona) Bibliographic System is a database designed for 
441 storing and retrieving bibliographies. Predesigned forms for 
20 types of entries. Citations automatically formatted with 
correct punctuation for printing, $295. Personal Bibliograph¬ 
ic Software, PO Box 4250, Ann Arbor, Ml 48106. CP (Feb 86) 
Record Holder is a flexible, easy-to-use form-oriented data 
444 manager. Set up is particularly simple and the search 
features are powerful. $49.95. Software Discoveries, 99 
Crestwood Rd., Tolland, CT 06084. NCP (Apr 86) 


NUMBER CRUNCHING 

CMckOn Worksheet is a 50-row by 20-column spreadsheet that 
444 loads onto any system disk as a desk accessory. Though 
small in size, it has remarkable capabilities for a desk 
accessory. Changes in the worksheet automatically reflect in 
charts, $79.95. T/Maker Company, 2115 Landings Dr.. 
Mountain View, CA 94043. NCP 
DosIgnScope is a construction kit for digital and analog circuits. 
4444 Up to 254 components can be utilized in a single circuit, and 
the equivalent of a dual trace osciHiscope plots output in 
real-time. Good for testing basic (and not-so-baslc) circuitry 
without touching a breadboard. $249,95, Brainpower, 
24009 Ventura Blvd., Calabasas, CA 91302. NCR 
MacCalc is a fast competent, full-featured spreadsheet with 
4444 impressive built-in functions, font control, on-line help, 
ability to expand columns and rows and read/write SYLK or 
WKS files. The worksheet is 125 columns by 999 rows. Cell 
names, printing power make IWacCa/c a very flexible pure 
spreadsheet. $99.95. Bravo Technologies, c/o DPAS, PO Box 
T, Gilroy, CA 95021. NCP (Sep 86) 

Multiplan, the first Mac product from someone other than Apple is 
4444 beginning to show age. Stiil a very capable basic spread¬ 
sheet with simple sorting, 63 columns by 255 rows, many 
built-in functions, other standard spreadsheet features. 
$199.95. Microsoft, 16011 NE 36th Way, Redmond, WA 
98052-6399. CP (Mar 86) 

ProAnalysIs is a powerful real estate investment analysis pro- 
44444 gram. This program uses the Mac interface as well as any 
program yet published. Analytic power is combined with 
report generating so good you have to see it produce an 
extraordinary product. Requires 512K+. $295. Technalysis 
Services, 14555 DeBell Rd,, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022. CP 
StatVIew is a high-powered statistical calculation package. Easily 
4444 and efficiently handles all the common statistical tech¬ 
niques and many uncommon tests. Has a user-definable 
area as well. Easy to use and well documented. $199.95. 
Brainpower, 24009 Ventura Blvd., Calabasas, CA 91302. 
NCP (May 86) 

StatWorfc* is a general-purpose statistics package that is both 
4444 powerful and easy to use. Handles all standard tests and 
procedures. Single variable and multivariate statistics are 
supported. $125. Cricket Software, 3508 Market St., Phila¬ 
delphia, PA 19104, NCP (May 86) 


GRAPHICS & DESIGN 

Animation Toolkit I lets users prepare "film clips' 7 of moving 
44 objects which play back at varying speeds, like old-fash¬ 
ioned flip books. Each fiim clip plays repetitiously as it is 
being constructed. A limited animation toot, but a lot of fun. 
$49,95, Ann Arbor Softworks, 308 Yu S, State St,, Ann Arbor, 
Ml 48104, CP 

Art Qrabber with Body Shop is a desk accessory that lets users 
4444 browse MacPaint documents, selecting and copying as they 


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MINIFINDERS 



choose. Selections can be larger than screen size. Also 
included are MacPaint documents and templates to allow 
the creation of people in your art. $49,95. Hayden, 600 
Suffolk St., Lowell, MA 01853, NCP 
Chart can easily create area, bar, column, line, pie, scatter and 
fill combination charts. A total of 42 styles are provided. 
Limited to 100 data items (64 in a series) on a 128K Mac, 
approximately twice that on a 512K Mac, $125. Microsoft, 
16011 NE 36th WAY, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, CP 
CiEckArt Special Effects is a MacPaint enhancement desk 
accessory. Allows the user to distort, stretch, rotate and use 
perspective on MacPaint documents. A necessary addition 
for all serious users of MacPa/nt. $49.95. T/Maker, 2115 
Landings Dr., Mountain View, CA 94043. NCP (Apr 86) 
ColorPrlnt facilitates color printing on the standard ImageWriter, 
444 MacPaint files set up as overlays are read into C olorPrint, 
and the program controls proper positioning registration and 
colored ribbon switching. Good results require lots of hard 
work, but it's cheaper than an ImageWriter II. $49.95. Esoft 
Enterprises, PO Box 179, Owasso, OK 74055. NCP (Mar 86} 
ContlcWoik* is a graphics wonder. Manipulate bit mapped graph- 
4444 ics as independent objects, with up to 64 layers of matting. 
An airbrush, multiple page capacity, full-screen drawing, 
and two disks of gorgeous artwork round out this package* 
Needs better LaserWriter support, $79.95, MIndscape, 
3444 Dundee Rd., Northbrook, IL 60062. NCP (Nov 86) 
Cricket Graph easily generates 12 graph types. Multiple windows 
44411 can be displayed. Graph prints in up to 8 colors with up to 16 
patterns. Self-generating macro formatting. Switcher, HFS, 
LaserWriter and plotter compatible. $195, Cricket Software, 
3508 Market St., Philadelphia. PA 19104. NCP (Jun 86) 
DaVIncJ Building Blocks features predrawn blocks of brown- 
44444 stone, garden, and skyscraper portions that can be cut and 
pasted together to form landscape and architectural draw¬ 
ings. Fun for even non-pro's. $79.95. Hayden, 600 Suffolk 
St., Lowell, MA 01853, NCP 

Draw Aft is the first MacDraw clip-art disk. Unfortunately, the 
n assortment of graphics is too ragtag and the quality of 
images ranges from great to terrible. No image index. 
$49.95, Desktop Graphics, 400 Country Drive, Dover, DE 
19901. NCP (Oct 86) 

Easy3D is a three-dimensional, solid modeling masterpiece. Four 
44444 variable light sources, powerful sculpting tools and an 
exquisite user interface make this program a must-have for 
Mac graphics enthusiasts. Requires a 512K+ Mac. Enabling 
Technologies, inc., 600 South Dearborn, Chicago, IL 60605, 
NCP (May 86) 

Fluent Fonts is a two-disk collection of fonts. Forty-nine different 
tin items are included. Ail install easily in user Systems, Most 
are well executed and some are extraordinarily nice. This is 
a real bargain for font lovers, $49,95, Casady, PO Box 
223779, Carmel CA 93922, NCP 
Fontastlc is the best font editor now available for the Mac, 
44444 Features a large editing window with a grid to make 
positioning easy. Select letters to edit by clicking on a 
matrix of the font. Allows scaling of existing fonts and 
previewing the various styles (italic, bold, etc*)* $49.95. 
Aftsys, PO Box 865410, Plano, TX 75086. NCP (Dec 85) 
Fontogyaphftr is a complex, but excellent laser font creator. The 
44444 fonts created have 300 bits per inch resolution. The fonts 
are actually downloadable PostScript files. $395. Altsys 
Corp., PO Box 865410, Plano, TX 75086. CP 
FullPalitt is an expanded version of MacPaint. Features include 
44444 fuli-screen drawing, multiple documents open simulta¬ 
neously, brush editing, movable tool palettes, special text 
effects and much more* It fills the gaps left by MacPaint 
$99.95. Ann Arbor Softworks, 308Va State St., Ann Arbor, 
Ml 48104, NCP (Jun 86) 

Home Design is a home planning tool that includes three disks 
4444 full of MacPamt files of household items needed to design a 
home. Art Grabber /nstaMer is included for easy manuverlng 


of items. The professional home designer, as well as the 
amatuer will feel at ease using this program, $79.95* 
Hayden, 600 Suffolk St., Loweil, MA 01854. NCP (Jun 86) 
Human Forms allows users to create perfectly proportioned 
444 humans in any posture or position* Contains over 1000 
separate body parts. Tiny X marks make limb* head and 
detail placement perfect. Requires MacPamt, $59.95. Bert 
Monroy, 205 Luquer St., Brooklyn, NY 11231. NCP 
Icon Switcher changes Icons for applications and the documents 
4444 ’they generate, permitting you to customize icons for person¬ 
al work. New icons can be built pixel by pixel in the program 
or created in MacPaint and pasted in. $19.95. PBI Software, 
1155B-H Chess Drive, Foster City, CA 94404, NCP 
LaserWorfcs is a high-resoiution font and graphics editor, produc- 
4444 ing LaserWriter-compatible end products. Its numerous well- 
designed features make it suitable for users of all levels, 
from beginners to pros. Requires 512K+ and external drive 
or hard disk. $299, EDO Communications, 63 Arnold Way, 
W. Hartford, CT 06119. CP (Sep 86) 

The Mac Art Dept. Is a collection of over 150 graphic images 
4444 ranging from foods to hands holding signs to borders. Best 
suited for letterheads, memos, other business use. $39,95. 
Simon & Schuster, Computer Software Div,, 1230 Ave. of the 
Americas, New York, NY 10020. NCP (Mar 86} 
Mac-a^Mug is an Identikit type program for creating faces from 
444 facia! feature files. Uses scroll bars that are slow and jerky. 
Lots of creative fun. 512K+ Mac required. $59.95. Shaher- 
azam, PO Box 27731, Milwaukee, W! 53226. CP (May 86) 
MacDraft Is an object-oriented graphics program, it sports ad- 
444 vanced features such as variable scaling, single degree 
rotation, complex arcs and a FatBits-like magnification 
mode. Best used to complement MacDraw. not replace it, 
$239, Innovative Data Design, 1975 Willow Pass Rd., 
Concord, CA 94520. CP (Feb 86) 

MacDraw is an object-oriented structured graphics program. Can 
44444 be used to design forms, create presentation materials and 
do technical illustrations. Drawing sizes up to 8 feet by 10 
feet are possible. Text can be easily generated and integrat¬ 
ed in the graphics. $195. Apple Computer, 20525 Marian! 
Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014. NCP (Nov 85) 

MacModel is an economical 3D package with shading. Somewhat 
444 sketchy Mac interface, shading speed slow (but acceptable), 
grainy image resolution* On-line help screens are a welcome 
addition. Frequent updates and low price make this a 
reasonably good buy, $40. A.P.P.L.E, CO : OP, 290 SW 43rd 
St., Renton, WA 98055. NCR (Aug 86) 

MacPaint is the graphics program that started a whole new genre. 
44444 Still the best freehand graphics tool Version 1.5 supports 
512K+ Macs and the LaserWriter. Multiple tools, patterns 
and features too numerous to describe. A work of art for 
artists, $125. Apple Computer, 20525 Mariani Ave., Cuper¬ 
tino, CA 95014. NCP (Nov 85) 

MacPubllshor is a tool for creating newsletters* Allows multiple 
444 page issues. Layout is fairly easy but hard to do precisely. 
Runs slowly on a 128K Mac; a 512K should be considered a 
requirement. Printer support, including LaserWriter, is good, 
$99.95, Boston Software Publishers, 19 Ledge Hill Rd., 
Boston, MA 02132. CP 

MacPiibllshar II is the souped-up version of MacPuMsber, Allows 
4444 MacWrite and Word files to be imported and edited; allows 
up to 96 pages; supports kerning, borders, cropping, and it 
runs on 128K Macs. $195. Boston Software Publishers, 
1260 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02215. CP (Sep 86) 
Mac3D Is a very Macish 3D drawing package. Easy to use, many 
444 primitive shapes, good LaserWriter support, and lots of 3D 
goodies. Not a fully professional CAD package, though, and 
no shading. $195. Challenger Software, 18350 Kedzie Ave., 
Homewood, IL 60430, NCP 

Magic Slate is a graphics and design program with built-in special 
444 effects and custom features. Fun but sometimes difficult to 
use. Great for pattern design, block and geometric graphics 


140 MACUSER NOVEMB ER 1986 












>7^'" We've taken 

FORTRAN to die Macs. 


Now your Macintosh™ can run with the 
big guys. Microsoft’s new FORTRAN compiler 
puts the power of mainframes within your 
reach. Without complications, without restric¬ 
tions. Because our compiler is the only full, 
ANSI standard FORTRAN 77 for the 
Macintosh. 

Fortified to exceed all 
your daily requirements. 



Microsoft* FORTRAN unleashes all your 
Mac’s resources. Now your scientific and engi¬ 
neering programs can have access to Mac 
graphics. An IEEE math package. Plus huge 
virtual arrays for data. Boosted with the 
blazing speed of compiled code. 

Our compiler makes the programming 
faster as well. FORTRAN enhancements like 
DO.. .WHILE make structured programming 
easy. Dynamic overlays let you run mainframe- 
size programs. Even in 128K of RAM. And a 
powerful set of utilities gives you complete 
library management. Not to mention dynamic 
linking, a program editor and an interactive 
source code debugger. 


In other words, Microsoft FORTRAN gives 
you just what you’d expect for your Mac— 
the max. 

So get moving. Call (800) 426-9400 for 
more information and the name of your 
nearest Microsoft dealer. In Washington State 
and Alaska, call (206) 882-8088. In Canada, 
(416)673-7638. 


Microsoft FORTRAN Compiler Version 2* 2 

Microsoft FORTRAN Compiler 

* Full ANSI FORTRAN 77-the standard. 

* Port mainframe and minicomputer applications with little or 
no change. 

♦Calculate with IEEE-standard floating-point numbers. 

* Performs direct 32-bit integer arithmetic. 

♦Supports virtual arrays as large as available disk space. 

♦Compile up to 1600 lines per minute. 

♦Optionally compile into Apple's MDS assembly language. 

* Structure your code using separately compiled modules, 
statement functions, block IF, block DO and SELECT CASE 
constructs. 

Interactive Window-Oriented Source Debugger 

* View your source file while debugging. 

♦Single-step through your program. 

♦Set source-level breakpoints to control execution. 

♦Examine and modify your variables. 

* Search source code for labels or line numbers. 

* Examine file status for all units. 

Extensive Toolbox Interface 

♦Access over 475 built-in Macintosh toolbox functions, including 
windowing, cursor handling, pull-down menus, mouse tracking, 
event queue handling and desk accessory management. 

* Draw using powerful Macintosh graphics routines: points, 
rectangles, ovals, arcs, polygons and regions. 

Library Manager 

* Build your own libraries of useful subprograms. 

* Include over 200 procedure files per library. 

* Mix FORTRAN and assembly language procedures. 

Object Code Linker 

♦Dynamically link routines as needed while executing. 

* Statically link subprograms for faster execution, 

Other Productivity Tools 

♦Apple's source code editor — oprimiied for faster programming. 

* Apples resource compiler — takes advantage of special 
Macintosh capabilities. 

System Requirements 

* 128K Macintosh. 

♦One disk drive. 


Microsoft® FORTRAN for the Macintosh! 

The High Performance Software. 


Microsoft is a revered trademark of Microsoft Corporation, Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Mr in tosh Laboratory, Inc 
and is used with its expressed permission. Microsoft FORTRAN' for the Macintosh was developed by Ahsoft Corporation. 











































and watercolor-style "washes." Requires 512K+, $99. De- 
vionics, RO Box 2126 r Covina, CA 91722, CP {Feb 86) 
MiU.D (MicroMind Utility Dl*k) is a disk of various utilities for 
fill! MusicWorks and Video Works owners. It also contains Cheap- 
Paint and Art Grabber +, two graphics desk accessories that 
are musts for graphics enthusiasts. Hayden, 600 Suffolk St, 
Lowell, MA 01854. NCP (Feb 86) 

PageMaker is an advanced layout and makeup program. Can 
4444 easily create multiple page documents. Output is optimized 
for LaserWriter, Good documentation. $495. Aldus, 411 
First Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98104. CP (Jun 86) 
Phoenix 3D is an economical 30 drawing package, with features 
lilt that belong in a much more expensive program. Multiple 
light sources, fine control over object placement and orien¬ 
tation, and a good selection of shapes, $39.95. Dreams of 
the Phoenix, PC Box 10273, Jacksonville, FL 32247, NCP 
(Oct 86) 

PIcturaBase is a program and accompanying desk accessory for 
44444 organizing MacPaint and MacDraw files. Graphics are orga¬ 
nized into libraries, and can be searched for by keywords. 
$69.95, Symmetry Corporation, 761 E. University, Mesa, AZ 
85203, NCP (Jun 86} 

PeeterMaker can enlarge MacPaint drawings by up to 3200 
444 percent. Full-screen cut and copy are supported, so any 
portion of a Paint document can be selected and scaled. 
Borders can be added automatically. Includes some nice 
digitized graphics files. $39,95, Strider Software, Beecher 
Lake Rd., Pembine, Wl 54156. NCR (Jul 86) 

ReadySetGo is a page makeup program for 512K+ Macs. Users 
4444 build up pages from blocks of text, graphics and rules* Text 
and art may be pasted in from another source or created 
within the program. Good LaserWriter support. $195* Man¬ 
hattan Graphics, 163 Varick St., New York, NY 10013. NCP 
(Apr 86) 

Slide Show Magician 1.3 is useful for creating full screen audio- 
444 visual presentations on the Mac. Frame branching, improved 
editing capabilities, external cassette recorder synchroniza¬ 
tion and digitized sound capabilities make this much more 
powerful than the original. $59.95, Magnum, 21115 Devon¬ 
shire St., Chatsworth, CA 91311* CP (Mar 86) 
Storyboarder produces working animated storyboards for use in 
film and video production. Imports graphics from MacPaint; 
allows screen masking to simulate television, 35mm or 
70mm screen widths; allows limited animation and special 
effects* Storyboards can be printed in several formats. 
$495. American Intelliware, 330 Washington St*, Marina Del 
Ray* CA 90292, CP (Nov 86) 

video Work* is a full-featured animation package. Professional 
44444quality animations are easily accomplished using the tools 
provided. Features frame-by-frame and real-time modes* 
Comes with an art disk of predrawn images and Art Grabber. 
$99.95, Hayden, 600 Suffolk St,, Lowell, MA 01854. CP 
(Nov 85) 

World-C la** Font*! comes In two volumes of three disks each. 
44444 Includes all the Mac the Knife fonts and a lot more, 
including 2 useful utilities. This is now the best collection of 
ImageWriter fonts available. Each volume: $39; both vol¬ 
umes: $59. DubLCIick Software* 18201 Gresham St., North- 
ridge, CA 91325, NCP 


COMMUNICATIONS 

HomePak is a package consisting of Home Term, an excellent 
44 simple telecommunications program with strong macro fea¬ 
tures; HomeFind, an electronic filer as bad as Home Term is 
good; and Apple's Edit, a simple. non-HFS-compatible text- 
file editor. $49*95, Batteries Included, 30 Mural St,. Rich¬ 
mond Hill. Ontario L4B 1B5, Canada, NCP (Sep 86) 
InTalk comes with its own communications command language 
14444 able to do unattended sessions. Supports Xmodem and 
MacBinary. Has a macro key function. Many sample set up 


documents and command language files provided, $145. 
Palantif, 12777 Jones Rd., Houston, TX 77070. CP (Prem) 
MacTermlnal provides basic telecommunications and terminal 
44 emulation for the Mac user. Doesn't have macros nor any 
sort of auto redial/auto logon capability* Best for those 
needing faithful VT100 or IBM 3278 emulation — it is 
superb at those, $99, Apple Computer* 20525 Mariani Ave. t 
Cupertino, CA 95014, NCP (Prem) 

Microphone Is a high-powered terminal program that's easy 
4444 enough for novices. Very powerful command language al¬ 
lows full automation of communications, if desired, $74.95. 
Software Ventures, 2907 Claremont Ave*. Berkeley, CA 
94705. NCR (Jun 86) 

Red Ryder is a full-featured telecommunications program that 
44444 supports MacBinary, Xmodem and Kermit, Remote service 
procedures, auto procedure writer and keyboard macros 
allow automation of many operations. It is shareware and a 
real bargain. $40, The FreeSoft Carp*, 10828 Laeklink* St. 
Louis, MO 63114, NCP (Jun 86) 

Smarteom II balances power and ease of use. Capable of 
44444 unattended operation and has a very powerful command 
language. Supports MacBinary* Xmodem, and Hayes Verifi¬ 
cation protocols* The large screen buffer can easily be 
archived. $149. Hayes. 5923 Peachtree Industrial Blvd,. 
Norcross, GA 30092. NCP (Jun 86) 

Telescope is the power telecommunicator's terminal program. Can 
444 be configured to emulate any terminal. The documentation 
does not adequately explain the many features, $125, 
Mainstay* 28611B Canwood St. r Agoura Hills, CA 91301. 
NCP (Prem) 

VersaTerm features include DEC VT100 and VT52, Tektronix 4014 
44444 graphics terminal and Data General DG200 emulation. 
Supports Xmodem and MacTerminal Xmodem protocols and 
MacBinary, $99. Peripherals, Supplies & Computers, 2457 
Perkiomen Ave,, Mt. Penn, PA 19606, CP (Prem) 


WORD PROCESSORS 

Document Compare allows users to compare any two MacWrite 
m 4 . 5 . ASCII or MDS documents. Differences in spelling* 
punctuation, formatting and wording are detected. Docu¬ 
ments can be printed out with differences highlighted, $99. 
The Model Office Company, Inc., 49 Wellington Street East, 
Toronto, Canada M5E 1C9, CP (May 86) 

EgWord is a MacWrite lookalike that allows full Japanese kanji 
444 word processing on the Mac. Does a superlative job of 
making Japanese text-entry as easy as possible. Great for 
students of Japanese, may find a place in international 
business as well $300. Counterpoint Systems, PO Box 
1685* Cambridge, MA 02138. CP (Apr 86) 

Just Text is a professional level word processor and page makeup 
44444 program that generates PostScript output. Comes with a set 
of LaserWriter utilities that allow total manipulation of art 
and text. Requires LaserWriter or other PostScript compati¬ 
ble output device, $195* Knowledge Engineering, GPO Box 
2139* New York, NY 10116. NCP (Dec 85) 

LeterFcnt* are new fonts for the LaserWriter, Users download 
«« them to their machines. Very high quality and very simple to 
use. Willamette looks like Avant Garde, M/croFonts provides 
tiny, expanded and condensed versions of the LaserWriter's 
own fonts. $29.95 each. Century Software, 2306 Cotner 
Ave,, Los Angeles, CA 90064, NCP 
Liberty Spell Checker is a fast, effective interactive checker. The 
4444 dictionary is smaller than average, but well chosen. Unfortu¬ 
nately, it has a few misspelled words. $59,95. DataPak, 
14011 Ventura Blvd,, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423. CP 
Maclndeker is a good writer's utility that takes much of the 
ttst mechanical work and time out of preparing an index. Works 
with MacWrite and Word. Can generate word frequency 
counts. $49.95. Boston Software Publishers, 1260 Boylston 
St,* Boston, MA 02215, CP (Jul 86) 


142 MAC U SER NOVEMBER 1986 













OMING 
NEXT 
ISSUE 


STUDIO SESSION: SIX-VOICE SOUND FROM YOUR MAC 
A BASIC COMPILER: ZBASIC 

THE PHONENET SOLUTION CAN SAVE YOU TIME AND MONEY 
THE ORB LEADS TO ROLE-PLAYING ADVENTURE 
ELECTRONIC MAIL ARRIVES ON TIME 

WHAT EFFECT WILL THE NEW APPLE IIGS HAVE ON THE MAC? 
DON‘T LET INTELLIGENT GAMES BEAT YOU 
IS INSIGHT THE ACCOUNTING PACKAGE FOR YOU? 

DOUG CLAPP ON (ALMOST) PAINLESS PASCAL 


PLUS* 


► i n MacUser 


The Macintosh Boundary 
from Doug Clapp 

John Dvorak on the state of 
the Mac 

Robert Wiggins’ Pinstripe Mac 

Dan Cochran with Answers from 
the Mac Team 

Three pages of hints and tips 
Over 250 MiniFinders 
An expanded Quick Click section 
More Cauzin Softstrips 










MINIFINDERS 






MacUghtnJng is an interactive spelling checker that is both very 
4444 fast and has an extensive, well thought out dictionary. Exists 
in the System as a desk accessory. $99.95. Target Soft¬ 
ware, 14206 SW 136th St., Miami, FL 33186, NCP 
MacWrite is the basic Mac word processor. While it doesn't have 
4444 every bell and whistle, it is more than adequate for most 
users. Features include global search and replace, page 
numbers indicated in the scroll bar and excellent LaserWriter 
compatibility. $125, Apple Computer, 20525 Mariani Ave., 
Cupertino, CA 95014. NCR 

Mega Forms is a well designed forms generator and processor, 
4« Forms design is easy. Can use data from MegaFtler. The 
form filling and print functions are slow, possibly too much 
so for large scale use. $495, Megahaus, 5703 Oberlin Dr,, 
San Diego, CA 92121. CP (Feb 86) 

QuIckWord Is a word processing accessory that adds sophisticat- 
m% ed glossaries to MacWrite . Simple to install and use, yet 
powerful and efficient. $49.95. EnterSet, 410 Townsend 
St., San Francisco, CA 94107. NCR 
Speliswell is an effective and powerful standalone spelling 
4444 checker. It has many advanced features such as capitaliza- 
tion and homonym checking and comes with a large, welt- 
chosen dictionary. Full-featured, easy to use, with keyboard 
equivalents for menu commands. $59.95. Greene. Johnson, 
Inc., 15 Via Chuaiar, Monterey, CA 93940. IMCP (May 86) 
Word is a power word processor for the Mac, It has just about every 
feature your heart could desire. Supports keyboard com¬ 
mands as well as the mouse. Does mail merge and 
muiticolumn text. Integrates with the rest of the Microsoft 
line. $195. Microsoft, 16011 NE 36th Way, Redmond, WA 
98052-6399. CP (May 86) 

Word Handler is a word processor with elements of MacWr/te and 
%m Word, Can delete, rename, etc., without quitting. Has case 


change, flexible printing options and glossary. Slow, and 
original release does not support graphics or the Clipboard, 
$79.95. Advanced Logic Systems, 1283 Reamwood Ave,, 
Sunnyvale, CA 94089. NCP (Oct 86) 


ORGANIZATIONAL TOOLS 

Acta is an outline processor in desk accessory format. It has 
4444 practically all the power of a standalone program, and then 
some. Can save files as Acta outlines, MacWrite or text files, 
A must-have for those who do outlining, $59,95. Symmetry, 
761 E. University Dr, Mesa, AZ 85203, NCP (Jul 86) 

Cal I lap# is a new type of outlining program. Chunks of information 
m are manipulated as small 'light bulbs' 1 containing text. 
Related elements can be graphically connected, and their 
text information viewed in hierarchical order. Text files can 
be created for MacWrite editing. $59,95, Innovision, PO Box 
1317, Los Altos, CA 94023, NCP (Sep 86) 

ItecIsloiiMap organizes data to facilitate decision making. Unique 
m weighting abilities make this a powerful tool. The decision 
analysis process is long and some times complex, but never 
difficult, $145, SoftStyle, 7192 Kalanianole Hwy,, Honolulu, 
HI 96825. CP 

MacProJect allows a user to plan and track a project from 
444 beginning to end. Uses CRM to produce schedules with start 
and finish dates for each task. Can report on resource 
interdependencies and generate all needed printed reports. 
$125, Apple Computer, 20525 Mariani Ave., Cupertino, CA 
95014, NCR (Mar 86) 

MacSp#c is a specification writing toot, a cross between word and 
444 outline processors. Can automatically number and indent 
headings, and renumber everything when lines are moved. 
Text under headings is handled and formatted as though in a 




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simple word processor, HFS-compatible, $199.95. LM Soft¬ 
ware, PO Box 93, Belmont, CA 94002./NCR (Oct 86) 
MaxTtilnk Is an outline and idea processor that focuses on 
4411 thinking skills. Helps you establish priorities, evaluate 
ideas, synthesize information. Some unique features and an 
innovative manual $89. MaxThink, Inc., 230 Crocker Ave., 
Piedmont, CA 94610, NCP (Oct 86) 

Micro Planner is a heavy-duty project planner. Excellent, but slow, 
444 at the mechanics of project planning. Reports are its 
weakness. Speed is much improved when a hard disk is 
used. $395, MicroPlanning Software USA, 235 Montgomery 
St., San Francisco, CA 94104. CP (Mar 86) 

MlmitlgM is a professional level decision support and business 
4444 planning package. Can work with If PS on mainframes, and is 
able to transmit models in both directions. Powerful and 
easy to use. Requires 512K-K $195. Execueom Systems, PO 
Box 9758, Austin, TX 78766. CP 
More is an incredibly powerful outline processor with gobs of great 
44441 features: instant charts, math capabilities, multiple win¬ 
dows, font and style control, templates and more. Prints 
outlines in any of several standard formats, even in color. 
Requires 512K+. $295. Living Videotext, 2432 Charleston 
Rd,, Mountain View, CA 94043. NCP (Sep 86) 
odm/Consuttant is a program that lets users organize ideas and 
444 helps in thinking through and solving problems. Easy to use 
thanks to extensive use of icons and on-screen help. This 
program introduces some low-level Al (artificial intelligence) 
concepts. $200. Organization Development Software, 1011 
E. Touhy Ave,, Des Plaines, IL 60018. CP (Apr 86) 
TtilnkTank $12 is a very fast and intuitive organizational tool. Full 
4444 keyboard control is possible. Can store and paste graphics 
into outlines. Slide show features allows high-quality pre¬ 
sentations to be created. Good report formatting and print¬ 


ing capability. $195. Living Videotext, 2432 Charleston Rd. r 
Mountain View, CA 94043, CP (Jan 86) 


DESK MANAGERS 

iatteryPak is a set of 8 handy desk accessories including 
44444 scientific and RPN calculators, a background text file printer 
and a 250-page note pad with search and phone dialing 
capabilities. Disk Tools is the best DA currently available. 
$49.95. Batteries Included, 30 Mural St,, Richmond Hill, 
Ontario, L4B 1B5, Canada. NCP (Dec 85) 

Front Desk lets small businesses and offices easily keep track of 
144 personnel schedules, activities and payments. The program 
can keep track of up to 15 employees, functioning as a day-, 
week- and month-at-a-glance calendar. $149,95. Layered, 
85 Merrimac St., Boston, MA 02114. CP (Dec 85) 
MacOfflx combines many of the simple and necessary office 
4444 functions in one easy-to-use package. Features include 
simple word processing, forms design, form letter produc¬ 
tion, report generation and filing. Good design nearly makes 
the manual unnecessary, $79. Emerging Technology, Inc., 
4760 Walnut St., Boulder, CO 80301, CP 
Mighty Mac is a personal data manager. Features include an on- 
4444 screen calendar, a Directory, Reminder function (with audio 
and visual alarm), and an Event function. Very good search 
capabilities for accessing information. $59.95. Advanced 
Logic Systems, 1195 E, Arques Ave,. Sunnyvale, CA 94086. 
CP (Aug 86) 

My Office lets you handle your files and papers in much the same 
4444 way you did before you got a computer. Excellent use of 
graphic symbols makes this program the easiest to use of its 
type. $129.95. DataPak, 14011 Ventura Bivd,, Sherman 
Oaks, CA 91423, CP (Prem) 


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Quickset is a set of desk management and organizational tools 
III that can be used as desk accessories or applications. 
Functions include note filer, card filer, calendar, phone 
dialer, financial and statistical calculators and a file encryp- 
tor, $49.95. EnterSet, 410 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 
94107. NCR (Dec 85) 

Sidekick is a set of desk organization applications and accesso- 
im ries. Functions include phone dialer and logger, desk 
accessory terminal, calculator, clock, editor and more. 
When resource files are included modules take up a lot of 
disk space. $84,95, Borland International, 4585 Scotts 
Valley Dr. t Scofts Valley, CA 95066, NCR (Dec 85) 
Smart Alarm* is the best reminder system for the Mac. Easy to 
44444 use. versatile, and, well, smart. This self-running DA auto¬ 
matically reminds you of anything you enter into its Remind- 
er file, giving you a wide range of useful advance warning 
options. $49.95. Imagine Software, 2000 Center St., Berke¬ 
ley, CA 94704, NCR (Oct 86) 

Top Dock is a set of 7 self-in stalling (and self-removing) DAs. 
4444 Menu Key adds Command key sequences to programs, View 
allows looking at and moving data between up to 8 MacWrite 
documents. BackPrlnt, Shorthand, Blank, Encrypt, and 
Launch, $59.95. Cortland Computer, PO Box 9916, Berke¬ 
ley, CA 94709. NCP {May 86) 


UTILITIES 

Accessory Pak 1 is a set of useful applications and utilities. Paint 
44444 Cutter alone is worth the price. That program allows users to 
browse and manipulate full page MacPaint documents. 
$39.95. Silicon Beach, 11212 Dalby PL. San Diego, CA 
92126. NCP {Nov 85) 

Copy II Mac does efficient sector and bit copies and in its latest 
44444 version can back-up virtually all Mac software. Features 
graphic displays of copy progress. Comes with MacToois , a 
multiuse utility that can recover many damaged files. 
$39.95, Central Point Software, 9700 SW. Capitol Highway, 
Portland, OR 97219. NCP (Apr 86) 

Disk Ranger is a speedy cataloguing program that doubles as an 
4444 efficient labelmaker. Comes with pinfeed labels. Works with 
regular and hard disks. Can catalog HFS systems. $49.95. 
Mainstay, 28611B Canwood St,, Agoura Hills, CA @1301. 
NCP (Mar 86) 

Dubi-CIIck Calculator Construction Set lets users design per- 
44444 sonalized calculators with a variety of standard and special 
functions. Finished calculators can be saved as installable 
desk accessories or as clickable applications, $59. Dubl- 
Click Software, 18201 Gresham St, Northridge, CA 91321. 
NCR (Apr 86) 

Fedlt Plus is the file and disk editor for everyone, from newest Mac 
44444 owner to oldest. It can do more for your disks and files than 
any other application. Can recover deleted MFS files. If you 
own a Mac, get it HFS-compatible, $40. MacMaster Sys¬ 
tems, 939 E. El Camino Real, #122, Sunnyvale, CA 94087, 
NCP (Sep 86) 

Hard Disk Util uses patch files to allow users to mount and run 
4444 specified programs on their hard disks. The list of patches is 
constantly expanding. $89,95. FWB Software, 2040 Polk 
St, San Francisco, CA 94109. NCP 
HFS Locator Plu® is the essential HFS desk accessory. It can 
4444 search for a file by name or date of creation, create folders, 
move files from one folder to another, set a program to 
launch while in an application, $34,95, PBI Software, 1111 
Triton Dr„ Foster City, CA 94494. NCP (Sep 86) 
MacDoostor is a disk-cache program that adds a great deal of 
4444 operating speed to a 512K Mac. It installs easily from its 
master disk. Can increase the speed of your 512K Mac by 2 
to 3 times. Not for Mac Plus. $50, Mainstay, 28611B 
Canwood St. r Agoura Hills, CA 91301. NCP 
Mac Dl*k Catalog II is a utility that will quickly organize a 
4444 moderate size disk library. Easy to use with powerful 


reporting and label-making features. $49,95. New Canaan 
Microcode, 136 Beech Rd., New Canaan, CT 06840. NCP 
(Dec 85) 

MacLabeler lets users instantly index and print labels for ail the 
%%%% disks in a burgeoning collection. Choose border type and 
orientation of your label; index by folder or document. 
Starter set of labels is included. $49.95, Ideaform, PO Box 
1540, Fairfield, IA 52556, CP (Prem) 

MacLInk lets users transfer data between Macs and PCs. Can do 
444 special format transfers such as 1-2-3 to Muitiptan and 
WordStar to MacWrite, Contains both Mac and PC disks, 
interface cable is optional. Has Mac and MS-DOS disks. 
$125, $155 with 8-ft interface cable, DataViz, 16 Winfield 
St., Norwalk. CT 06855. NCP 

MacMatel combines RAMdisk and print spooling functions in a 
compact package. Both parts are efficient, work well and 
have on-screen help, $49.95. SMB Development Asso¬ 
ciates, PO Box 3082, Chatsworth, CA 91311. NCR 
Mac Nosy is a global disassembler. A very advanced user can use 
44444 this program to look into the code of virtually any program. 
This advanced tool can take you places no other Mac 
program could dream of going IF you have the skill to guide 
it. The documentation is sparse. For pros only. $85. Jasik 
Designs, 343 Trenton Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025. NCP 
Mac + II lets you run Apple II software on the Mac, Emulation 
444 speed is only 35 to 45 percent of a real Apple II, so graphics 
especially suffer. Games also run slow. Runs AppleWorks 
(Apple II integrated software). Good for ex-Apple II owners 
who have large software collections. $149.95. Meacom, PO 
Box 272591, Houston, IX 77277. CP 
MacQweriy is a set of three keyboard utility programs. Reconfi- 
4444 gum allows users to assign any character to any key, 
Standard sets up a normal qwerty keyboard and Dvorak 
changes the key arrangement to the very efficient Dvorak 
layout. $35, Paragon Courseware, 4954 Sun Valley Rd. , Dei 
Mar, CA 92014, NCP {Jul 86) 

MacServe converts a Mac and a hard disk into a disk and print 
44444 server. Uses the AppleTalk network and is easily hooked up. 
Users can partition the hard disk into multiple volumes. Runs 
in the background, so users can work on all machines in the 
network. $250. Requires 512+ or Mac XL, Infosphere, 4730 
SW Macadam, Portland, OR 97201. CP 
MacZap is a three-part disk and memory utility. It can be used to 
4444 recover some damaged files and disks, compare disks, 
analyze disk structure and make back-up copies of most 
disks, $60, Micro Analyst, 5802B Gloucester, Austin, TX 
78723. NCP {Jan 86) 

myDlskLabeler is an excellent label making program. It can read 
4444 directories, or use large or small icons, or anything else the 
user desires. Comes with 54 precut labels on pinfeed paper, 
HFS compatible, $44,95; with color printing ability (on the 
ImageWrfter ll) t $54.95. Williams and Macias, PO Box 
19206, Spokane, WA 99219. NCP (Aug 86) 

’Ncryptor Is a simple, safe program that lets users password their 
4444 fifes. The same program is used for encoding and decoding. 
This is the best product in its category. $39.95. Mainstay, 
28611B Canwood St„ Agoura Hills, CA 91301. NCP 
Packer is a simple utility that compresses files. It can be used to 
4444 save disk space and also protect files. Typical space savings 
range from 20 to 50% depending on the original file type 
and size. This is the best program of its type so far. $29. 
Bobbing Software, 67 Country Oaks Dr., Buda, TX 78610. 
NCP (Jun 86) 

PC to MAC and BACK has both Mac and MS-DOS disks. This 
444 program efficiently transfers text and other data between 
PCs and Macs, The documentation is excellent. Does special 
format transfers such as WordStar to MacWrite ♦ Includes a 
cable for direct Mac to PC connections. $149.95. dilithium 
Press, 8285 SW Nimbus, Beaverton, OR 97005, NCP 
Quick & Dirty Utilities, Volume One is a desk chock full of the 
44444 handiest programs you have ever bought. Included are a 


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Switcher is Andy Hertzfeld's contribution to Mac productivity. This 
44444 program lets users run several programs at once (up to 8 on 
a 1-megabyte or larger machine). Switching between the 
programs is near Instantaneous. Requires 512K+. $19.95 
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TMON is the debugger for the Mac. This isn't open to question. 
44441 TMON is simply the best. Comes with the latest version of 
Darin Adler's Extended User Area. $100, ICOM Simulations. 
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databases to your Mac. Speed increases range upward from 
50% to over 300% at 2400 baud. $39,95. Mainstay, 
2861IB Canwood St,, Agoura Hills, CA 91301. NCP 
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4444 functionality of a Hewlett-Packard 12C programmable calcu¬ 
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m features, such as text and graphics copy from Apple screen 
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machine" emulation, $69, Micro-W Distributing, Inc., 1342B 
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Aztec C is a C language that will appeal to users with a UNIX 
%%%% background, It uses many UNIX conventions and in the more 
expensive versions comes with standard UNIX utilities, 
including the VI editor. $199 basic system, $299 develop¬ 
ment system, $499 commercial system, Manx Software 
Systems, PO Box 55, Shrewsbury, NJ 07701, NCP (May 86) 
MacAsm is a software development system that allows programs 
444 to be written in assembly language. Programmers can 
assemble, edit and test software, and an integrated re¬ 
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own icons. $125, Mainstay, 28611B Canwood St., Agoura 
Hills, CA 91301. NCP 

Mac C is a good, highly Mac-oriented implementation of this 
4444 popular development language. Assembler and linker built- 
in. $425, Consulair, 140 Campo Dr, h Portoia Valley, CA 
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MacExpress is a development environment or shell. Programmers 
444 use it to save time and effort when developing standalone 
applications for the Mac, Easy to use for those with a strong 
technical background. $50 test drive package, $495, AL- 
Soft, Inc.. PO Box 927, Spring, TX 77383. NCP (Feb 86) 
MacForfli is an implementation of the popular Forth programming 
1444 language. Level 1 is a simple, introductory version. Level 2 
supports the Mac Toolbox fully. Level 3 extends the lan¬ 
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Mach II is a multitasking implementation of Forth that allows local 
44tt variables and text files. Can create standalone applications. 
Several windows can be up with different operations in each, 
operating concurrently. Execution is fast. $99.95. Requires 
512K, Palo Alto Shipping, PO Box 7430, Menlo Park, CA 
94026. NOP (Apr 86) 

Macintosh 68000 Development System Is a fairly traditional 
44|| assembly language package. The two-disk set provides an 
editor (Edit), an assembler, a linker, an executive and a 
resource compiler. $195, Apple Computer, 20525 Marian! 
Ave., Cupertino, CA 95014. NCP 
Macintosh Pascal is Apple Computer's version of this very popular 
4444 programming language. Loaded as it is with innovative 
teaching features, this interpreter is an excellent introduc¬ 
tion to Pascal. The documents are mostly references, get a 
good tutorial textbook. $125. Apple Computer, 20525 
Marian! Ave,, Cupertino, CA 95014, CP 
MacScheme is a LISP dialect with 'artificial intelligence" capabili- 
444 ties. Has a large appetite for RAM. Interpreted language with 
Toolbox access limited to a small part of QuickDraw, $125. 
Semantic Microsystems, 4470 S.W. Hall St, Beaverton, OR 
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Megamax C is an easy to use, full version of C. Has a compiler, 
4444 linker, disassembler, editor and much more. Good for 
beginners. Excellent documentation, $299,95, Megamax, 
PO Sox 851521, Richardson, TX 75085. NCP 
Microsoft BASIC was the Mac's first programming language. This 
4444 interpreter (it's not a compiler) now supports the Toolbox and 
the whole Mac interface can be implemented in your 
programs. For nonprogrammers there are lots of programs 
available to run, $150. Microsoft, 16011 NE 36th Way, 
Redmond, WA 98052-6399. NCP 
Microsoft Logo, from Microsoft's MacLibrary, written by LCSL An 
4444 excellent implementation of Logo, taking full advantage of 
the Mac's user interface. Uses three windows. Turtle looks 
like a turtle, and its screen actions are very precise. 
Windows can be resized and moved about, $124.95, Micro¬ 
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QUED (Quality Editor for Developers) is the ultimate source 
4444 code editor. Loaded with useful and well thought out 
features, it will make any programmer's life much easier, it 
is not a word processor, however. $65. Paragon Courseware. 
4954 Sun Valley Rd., Del Mar, CA 92014, NCP (Mar SB) 
TML (MacLanguage Series) Pascal is a good Pascal compiler, 
44444 capable of producing standalone programs. Can use most 
existing Lisa Pascal programs with only slight modification. 
Requires 512K. $99.95. TML Systems, PO Box 361626, 
Melbourne, FL 32936, NCP (Jun 86) 


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ChlpWits is a combination game and teaching tool. Players create 
44444 programs to maneuver robots through a set of 8 mazes. The 
programs are written in ChipWit’s built-in icon-based pro¬ 
gramming language (IBOL)* IBOL is a nearly perfect introduc¬ 
tion to programming for non prog rammers. $49,95. Brain- 
Power. 24009 Ventura Blvd., CalabasaS, CA 91302, NCP 
DletMac is a database consisting of about 800 foods with 
4444 nutritional information, from which to choose for planning 
daily menus. The Modify Food Data option allows users to 
customize and update data. Some on-screen help. $79. 
Tess Data Systems, Inc,, 17070 Red Oak Drive, Houston, TX 
77090. CP (May 86) 

KldvTIme is a package of five quality educational programs for 
4444 children between the ages of 3 and 12. The programs alt 
have adjustable difficulty levels. Some use speech and one 
is a nice introduction to musical notes. Sparse documenta¬ 
tion. $49.95. Great Wave Software, PO Box 5847, Stanford, 
CA 94305, CP (Oct 86) 

MacChemlstry is a two-disk set consisting of a titration program, 
444 a periodic table program, /VfacNest (a scrapbook with index¬ 


ing), and a disk of MacPaint files. MacNesf is of general 
appeal. $145. Fortnum, 31 W. Sierra Madre Blvd,, Sierra 
Madre, CA 91024. NCP 

MacEdge and MacEdge II each contain 8 reading or math drill 
444 programs for basic skills. Programs follow one of three 
formats, a bit contrived. Contrivances are design flaws — 
they require learning format as well as skill. $49.95 each. 
Think Educational Software, 16 Market St., Potsdam, NY 
13676. CP 

MacStro no my is a good package for novice sky watchers. Has 
444 expandable database of sky objects that can be customized 
by the user. New version is very fast. $75. Etlon Software, 
PO Box 649, Lafayette, CO 80026. CP (Apr 86) 

MacTypo offers structured typing instruction. Can teach both 
4444 standard and Dvorak keyboards. Features include certifi¬ 
cates for reaching certain levels. Can be used in a multistu¬ 
dent environment, $49.95. Palantir Software, 12777 Jones 
Rd., Houston, TX 77070. CP 

MasterType is proof that learning to type can be fun. In this 
444 arcade-style action game words descend from four corners 
towards the center ship; the user must type them correctly. 
Features 18 skill levels, tracks errors, recommends lessons 
and provides comparison scores, $49,95, Mindscape, 3444 
Dundee Road, Northbrook, IL 60062, CP 
NotePro is an educational package that teaches users to organize 
mt and make best use of their notes. Consists of five well 
designed parts, which can be used individually or as a 
whole, $59.95, Learning Skills, PO Box 8038, Reno, NV 
89507, NCP (Jul 86) 

PowerMath is an equation solver. Handles problems ranging from 
the simplest to the extremely complicated. Step-by-step 
solutions make this a powerful teaching tool. Results display 
numerically or graphically. $99,95, Industrial Computations, 
40 Washington St,, Wellesley, MA 02181, NCP 
Score Improvement System for the SAT is a no-nonsense drill 
4444 and practice session covering practice tests, vocabulary, 
reading comprehension, math and quantitative compari¬ 
sons. On-line tutoring for wrong answers. $99.95. Hayden, 
600 Suffolk St, Lowell, MA 01854. CP (May 86) 

Speed Reader II builds skills sequentially to develop faster, more 
444 efficient reading and improve retention. Scores are kept, 
and can be graphed. High school level selections included, 
other levels available on data disks. $69.95, Davidson & 
Associates, 3135 Kashiwa St., Torrance, CA 90505. CP? 
(Apr 86) 

Telletar I & II are Mac astronomy programs. Have extensive 
44444 databases, quick sky plotting and can locate specific 
objects. Level II has southern hemisphere star table, Messi¬ 
er objects, $49.95 (level I), $79,95 (level II)* Spectrum 
HoloByte, 1050 Walnut, Boulder, CO 80302. NCP (Apr 86) 
Turbo Turtle is a turtle graphics program primarily designed as a 
4441 learning tool for children. Uses Logo commands for graph¬ 
ics, but is not a full Logo implementation. Simple to use, 
good introduction to Logo for young children. $59,95. 
Hayden, 600 Suffolk St., Lowell, MA 01854. CP 


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A Mind Forever Voyaging is a departure in text adventure games, 
till It has a more extensive vocabulary and a more involved story 
than most of the genre. The story here is gripping, but there 
are only a few puzzles to solve. Requires 512K-K $44.95. 
Infocom, 125 CambridgePark Dr., Cambridge, MA 02140. 
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444 The player defends against an assault from flying enemies. 
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Alter Ego simulates the entire lifetime of a fictional character. The 
444 player's reaction to each multiple-choice event shapes the 


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similarities tq. previous characters. $59,95. Activision. PO 
Box 7287, Mountain View, CA 94039. CP (June 86) 
Ahiumi is an illustrated adventure authored by Michael Crichton. 
441 Unravel the fate of a doomed expedition with the help of 
Paco the talking parrot. Three difficulty levels, good sen¬ 
tence parser, $49,95, Telarium, 1 Kendall Sq., Cambridge, 
MA 02139. CP (Feb 86) 

TW Ancient Art of War gives users a chance to refight some 
Hill famous campaigns on both strategic and tactical levels. 
Campaigns can also be designed from scratch. Very play¬ 
able, addicting game. Requires 512K+ Mac, $49.95. Bro- 
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Arcfeen pits the forces of LJght against Dark in a quest to gain 
44444 control of five Power Points on a checkerboard grid. The 
shifting cycles of squares' colors keeps the balance of power 
ever-changing. One or two players. $44,95, Electronic Arts, 
2755 Campus Dr., San Mateo, CA 94403. CP (Oct 86) 
Bale nee of Power is the world's first computer peacegame. This 
44444 simulation allows players to become either the President of 
the United States or General Secretary of the Soviet Union. 
Extraordinary artificial intelligence routines and general play 
make this a classic, $54,95. Mindscape, 3444 Dundee Rd,, 
Northbrook, IL 60022, CP (Prem) 

Baron Is the world of real estate, in a financial simulation. Buy and 
44444 option properties In five key areas; invest in industrial, 
residential, or land property; or put cash aside in high- 
interest accounts. $59.95. Blue Chip, 6740 Eton Ave., 
Canoga Park, CA 91303. CP 

Sorrowed Tima casts players as detectives who have to solve their 
4444 own murder — before it happens. This game requires players 
to think and act like a detective to solve the game. Good 


sentence parser, sketchy Mac interface. $44,95. Activision, 
PO Box 7287, Mountain View, CA 94039. CP (May 86) 
Bratacoa* is a true action adventure. Terrible, confusing Instate- 
444 lion manual mars an otherwise good game. Excellent 
graphics, unusual sentence parser, $44.95. Mindscape, 
3444 Dundee Rd,, Northbrook, IL 60062. CP 
Bridge 4.0 provides three other players and the cards for a game 
|| of rubber bridge. Its an average (Goren) bidder and a less 
than good card player. Good if it's the only game in town. 
Plays slowly since It's written in BASIC. $29.95. Artworx 
Software, 150 N. Main St, Fairport, NY 14450. CP (Sep 86) 
Championship Boxing allows statistical replay involving famous 
4444 boxers. Players can modify existing boxers and can create 
their own fighters. Good Sound and graphics. $39.95. 
Sierra, PO Box 485, Coarsegold, CA 93614, CP (Mar 86) 
Cyborg Is a text adventure game with an interesting twist. Robot 
444 brain Is implanted in concert with yours. It scans, evaluates, 
and reports, then carries out actions. Word and sentence 
understanding is very good. Absorbing game for adventur¬ 
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94903. CP 

Deadline is a text adventure in which the player is a detective 
444 called in to investigate what seems like a simple drug 
overdose. The family lawyer thinks it was really a murder. 
You have 12 game hours to find the killer! $49.95. Infocom, 
125 CambridgePark Dr., Cambridge, MA 02140. CP 
Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comas True is a graphic adventure that 
44444 breaks new ground. Innovative use of the’ Mac Interface in 
truly playable and exciting game. A great introduction to 
graphic adventure games. $49,95, Mindscape. 3444 Dun¬ 
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they’ll automatically 
return later. 

5 Recurring remind 
» ers can be set lo 
appear daily, weekly, 
quarterly or even yearly, 
all with a single mouse 
click 


PLUS: Smart Alarms comes with the full-featured 
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Print, and full Search capabilities. In addition, appointments 
you select from this calendar automatically become Smart 
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Not copy protected 

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Clearly reproduces any Mac display 
including fine text and high-res graphics 
onto screens up to 20 feel wide. An image 
as sharp as your Mac s, Controls for 
brightness and contrast adjust for room 
lighting conditions. Includes everything 
you need: projector, PDS External Video 
Card, 25' video cable, and complete 
Instructions 

CO M PL ET E SYSTE M $4,4 95-00 


BIG MAC MONITOR™ 

Delivers 23" of sharp high resolution 
black and white display, enclosed in a 
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Will clearly reproduce any Mac screen 
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series where multiple displays are re. 
guired. Includes everything you need; 
the Monitor, a PDS External Video Card 
for the Mac, 25' video cable, and com 
plete instructions. 

COMPLETE SYSTEM $1,995.00 


FREE EXTERNAL VIDEO CARD INCLUDED: 

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Multi-user Appointment Diary creates a network of 
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nected by AppleTalk, This desk accessory system has all the 
features of the single-user version including Print, Search, 
and the ability to automatically convert appointments you 
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Not copy protected. 

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0oruw M . 26.50 

m SYSTEMS SOFTWARE 

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toy toper Calendar . 24.00 

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Quick Push . 26.00 

Mot Gos . 56,00 

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HAYDEN 

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YIDEX 

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Fonhniftf . 23.50 

ANN ARBOR SOFTWARE 

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FufiPtini . 57.00 

AXIOM 

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Art Partfclki II . 49.50 

CASSA0Y COMPANY 

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laser Font Willamette .. 19.00 

Ulirdwits . ., .. 19.00 

UltraliKits/TechnRal & Business . 32.00 

Tedirvkol t Business Fonts ..... .. 19,00 
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M« 30 . 114.50 

CRICKET SOFTWARE 

bicker Graph . 133.00 

DESKTOP GRAPHICS 

Draw Art . 28.00 

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Underwue Pens . 9.00 

Underlie Ribbon . 9.00 

DRUID 

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Gcaphk letters ..25.00 

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Quick Ptwii.. 26.00 

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DaVirai Interiors. ..20.50 

OnVinri Hmjws. 20,50 

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DuYirar lomlHapes . 20.50 

Ad Grabber W/»dy Shop . 20.50 

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Paste Ease . 34-50 


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Mr Pk volume 2 . 27.50 

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MESi GRAPHICS 

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MICRO MAPS 

M« Arias m . 48.50 

Mk Arles USA . 48.50 

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Sikan Press . 41.00 

SOFISTYLE 

C-olOfrniJte . 57.00 

SUMMAGRAPNFCS 

Mot Tablets . 257.00 

Mtm Tablet 12*12 . 357,00 

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T MAKER 

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Click Art letters. 24.75 

Cl<k Art Pyswei Gsopbits- . 24.75 


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Henre ActHindaet.. . CALL 

CHANG LARS 

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Rags la Rkhes AP . 94.00 

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MONOGRAM 

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foretasr . 39.50 

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Inventory Conhd-Palentir . 68,00 

General Ledwf^brir . 68.00 

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SIMON AND SCHUSTER 

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Imrejmrerit Panning . 43.00 

ki flennet . 27,00 

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Omais III... 275.W 

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Slut View 512 .215.00 

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Mot forms . 41.00 

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Mv Office . 78.00 

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Slfoigjhl Talk . 55.50 

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Waiter Manager + .113.00 

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EHTER5ET 

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filemuter. 104,00 

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SpdM ....... .32.00 

™a systems 

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KnboWffli . . 30.50 

Hubo Business Forms . 30.50 

Nobis Business litters . 30.50 

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EnswnhSe . . 50.00 

Hayden Spelter . 44 a M 

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Mare .CALL 

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Mein Street Filer . 52.00 

MEAC0M 

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MEGAHAUS 

Megnfiter . 98.00 

. 64.00 

.. 148.00 


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ME& GRAPHIC 

TeMke. 150.00 

MICRO PLANNING SOFTWARE 

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Mian Planner Plus . 799.00 

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Errrel . ,..239.00 

Chart . 71.00 

Multiples. 109.00 

Fite .. 109.00 

Wad . 120.00 

NEW CANNAN MICRO 

Mot Disk Careteg It . 31.50 

NOLO LEGAL 3FTWARE 

W3I Wrirer . 74.SO 

ODESTA 

Hifa . . . 210.00 

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Sales Censult&fll . . CAU 

PALADIN 

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Supetaunilt . 144,00 


kperrrunth. 

PALANTIR 


. 70.00 


.27,00 


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PR0TEKTIT SOFTWARE 

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REAL DATA 

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Financtel Analysis . 58.50 

Tok Sheher Syitcfeotion Analyst . 168.00 

Real Esfnte IrMStmenJ Analysis. ... 88.00 

Mortgage Qualifier . 110.00 

On&Wute. 110.00 

Commercial Inrfustiiql Aep . 58,50 

SAI0RI SOFTWARE 

... 74.00 
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SIMON K SCHUSTER 


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SMITH MICRO 

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$tw! FWteTn System . 141.00 

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Timetese . 03.00 

SOFTSTYLE 

Decision Atop .. 74.00 

SOFTECH MICROSYSTEMS 

Mail Manager .. 49.00 

SOFTVIEW 

iMatinfQj; 85 . 48.00 

SOFTWARE PUBLISHING 

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STATSOFT 

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STONEWARE 

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SUPEREX 

Mac Notes . 37.00 

TEE0S 

Rtemim . 94.00 

Busks* fitewba .. 190.00 

LANGUAGES 

C0NSULAIR 

Mot C W/Tool Kit . 258,00 

CREATIVE SOLUTIONS 

Mk FwTh lewl l. 72.00 

EXPERTELLIGENCE 

Eiger lisp . 238,00 

EjjmtOjk 5 . . 168.00 

tw Lwa . 78,00 

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Hippo- C 1ml II . 191.00 

lOflYA SYSTEMS INC 

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MAINSTAY 

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MANX 

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MICRO ANALYST 

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rants. Users enter number of diners and program scales 
recipes accordingly. $59.95. Rubicon, 6300 La Calma Dr., 
Austin, TX 78752. CP (Jan 86) 

Enchanted Scepter* is a surround sound graphic adventure 
4444 game. It has a limited vocabulary and virtually no story. 
Offers extensive and varied scenes and utilizes the Mac 
interface to the fullest. A worthwhile adventure experience. 
$39.95. Silicon Beach Software, PO Box 261430, San 
Diego, CA 92126, CP (May 86) 

Flight Simulator puts you at the controls of a small plane (prop or 
till jet) and lets you roam North America. As difficult as real 
flying. Mac version has features not found on earlier 
versions, including spotter aircraft. Not all features avail¬ 
able on 128K. $49.95. Microsoft, 16011 NE 36th Way* 
Redmond* WA 98052. CP (Nov 86) 

Fokkar Triplmt is about as near to flying as you can get seated in 
mi front of a computer. Very realistic simulation and excellent 
graphics, Weil designed and implemented. $59.95, PBI 
Software, 1155B-H Chess Dr.. Foster City, CA 94404. CP 
(Feb 86) 

Gateway comes with 3 full-color prints. You inherit a boring old 
III building from a supposedly rich uncle, eventually learning 
that the building is a "gateway" to a lost civilization. 
$49.95, Pryority. 635 Sanborn Rd,, Salinas, CA 93901. CP 
Gate puts players in command of an American submarine in World 
mil War U. This superb simulation game uses all of the Mac's 
graphic capabilities to really make you feel that "you are 
there." $39.95. Spectrum Hoiobyte, 1050 Walnut St,, Boul¬ 
der, CO 80302. CP (Nov 85) 

Grid War* is a three-dimensional arcade-style game. Good play- 
111 ability* for those that enjoy shoot : em-ups. Bizarre graphics. 
$39.95, Ann Arbor Softworks, Inc,, 308Y* S, State Street, 
Ann Arbor* Ml 48104. CP (Apr 86) 

Qyp*y is a computerized, customizable Ouija board. More than just 
mi a software package, users get a pasteboard playing surface 
and a Mouse Mover with 99 ball bearings. $39,95, Magnum, 
21115 Devonshire St,, Chatsworth, CA 91311. CP (Prem) 
Legacy is a two-part text/graphic adventure, A magical orb in Drab 
irn Castle must be found through the use of spells and careful 
adventuring. Wei I-constructed game. $45. Challenger Soft¬ 
ware, 18350 Kedzie Ave. ( Homewood, IL 60430. CP 
Lode Runner is a 150-screen action-strategy challenge that 
uu requires a joystick for truly effective play. Move around a 
grid of ladders and platforms collecting treasure; dig a hole 
to trap pursuers. Build your own challenges. $39.95. Broder- 
bund* 17 Paul Dr.. San Rafael, CA 94903. CP 
The Luseher Profile is a psychological profile generator that 
m bases its conclusions on users' responses to seven different 
color tests (color charts are enclosed in the package), 
$39,95, Mindscape, 3444 Dundee Rd,, Northbrook, IL 
60062, CP (Aug 86) 

MacChaflongar lets players land a space shuttle. The graphics of 
III this flight simulator are crude and it's a hard machine to fly* 
but It's also a lot of fun. Lets you record your landing attempt 
and then review it from any of ten camera angles. $49.95. 
Aegis Development, 2210 Wilshire Blvd,, Santa Monica, CA 
90403, CP (Feb 86) 

MacGolf is a dynamic simulation of real golf. Players have a 
im choice of courses and difficulty levels. Superb playability 
makes this a must for all golfers and gamers. Requires 
512K+, $59.95. Practical Computer Applications, 1305 
Jefferson Highway* Champlin, MN 55316, CP (May 86) 
Maditooga ChooChoo is a set of electronic toy trains. Run on the 
uu layouts provided* or create your own, as complex as you 
wish. Create scenery using built-in toots or import fancier 
MacPaint scenery. $39. Fortnum, 31 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., 
Sierra Madre* CA 91024. NCP (Apr 86) 

MoeYaga* contains seven complete casino-style games; bacca- 
III rat, blackjack* craps* keno, poker, roulette and slots. All are 
fairly standard* but generally well designed. House rules can 


be selected from a menu. The games are all fun to play, but 
not particularly absorbing. $59, Vldex, 1105 Northeast 
Circle Blvd., Corvallis* OR 97330, CP 
Make Million* is a fascinating business simulation in which the 
44141 player competes against the computer to take control of five 
companies, then run them profitably. Appeals to the closet 
capitalist in all of us. $49.95. Scarborough Systems, 55 
South Broadway* Tarrytown, NY 10591. CP 
Mind Over Mac features five games. Entertainment for the whole 
4444 family* Good graphics paired with synthesized sound and on¬ 
screen help. $49,95. Think Educational Software* 16 Market 
St., Potsdam, NY 13676, CP (Feb 86) 

Mind Prober is a demonstration of a very simple expert-style 
14 system. How well do you know your friends? Answer certain 
statements as either true or false* and the computer prints a 
3- to 5-page psychological profile of subject in business* 
stress, sex and other situations, $50. Human Edge Soft¬ 
ware, 2445 Faber PL, Palo Alto, CA 94303. CP 
The Mini is an all-text "interactive novel” based on a short story by 
f44 Stephen King. Vivid graphic and sometimes gory descrip¬ 
tions compensate for the game's, muddled sentence parser. 
The story is involving, while the game is overly lock-step, 
$39.95. Mindscape, 3444 Dundee *Rd,, Northbrook, IL 
60062. CP (May 86) 

NowGamivton is animated backgammon that will challenge even 
m* good players. Features include variable skill levels and 
strategies and options to play the Mac or watch the Mac play 
itself. An arcade-like high speed mode is included. $39,95, 
Newsoft, PO Box 4035, Newport Beach, CA 92661. CP 
Orbtter puts a real space shuttle on the Mac screen. A multitude of 
44444 controls* intelligent on-board computer with speech capabil¬ 
ities, real-time graphics and 16 distinct missions help this 
program succeed as both a game and a simulation, $49.95. 
Spectrum HoloByte, Inc.* 1050 Walnut Street, Suite 325, 
Boulder* CO 80302. NCP (Nov 86) 

Peiplaxx is a board word game based on Scrabbte. Players can 
uu vary the rules and board to suit their tastes and skills. Up to 
four can play and the game can either be an active player or 
a scorer and arbiter. Has a 90,000+ word dictionary. 
$39.95. Hayden, 600 Suffolk St.. Lowell* MA 01854. CP 
Pinball Construction Set lets users create their own pinball 
uu games, as elaborate or as easy as desired. Uses MacPaint 
for backgrounds and has lifelike sounds (on 512K+ Macs), 
No documentation to speak of. $40. Electronic Arts* 2755 
Campus Dr., San Mateo* CA 94403. CP (Jan 86) 

P*lon Chess is as good a micro chess player as you'll find. This 
mu 1984 World Micro Champion makes superb use of graphics 
and the Mac interface. Switch between 6 languages for a 
touch of spice. $59.95. Psion, 40 Lindeman Dr.*.Trumbull, 
CT 06611. CP (Mar 86) 

Real Poker is five-card draw against five other players with Old 
mu West names, distinct personalities and playing styles, in a 
saloon setting. Dealing and play are very fast. Game 
evaluates your hand. $39.95, Henderson Associates, 980 
Henderson Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94086. CP 
Rogue is a strategy dungeon adventure in which each quest is 
4444 completely different. Randomly generated rooms* monsters 
and treasures keep even veterans on their toes. $39, Epyx, 
1043 Kiel Ct., Sunnyvale* CA 94089, CP (Feb 86) 
Sargon III is a chess-program with 9 levels of play, problem- 
1441 solving modes, take back* hint, etc. Easy Play blocks Sargon 
from stealing search time during player's move, effectively 
doubling number of levels. Disk stores 107 classic games 
for review and replay. $49,95, Hayden, 600 Suffolk St., 
Lowell, MA 01854. CP (Mar 86) 

Shanghai challenges players to clear a board of all 144 tiles, by 
44444 etching pairs of mah-jongg tiles and removing them. 
Terrific strategic options plus the ability to randomly gener¬ 
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444 planes, and enemy cities floating in the sky. Fast graphics, 
good sound, slick, on-board attack computer and many 
levels of difficulty will keep fans of this genre happy for 
hours. $39,95, Electronic Arts, 2755 Campus Dr., San 
Mateo, CA 94403. CP (Oct 86) 

Strategic Conquest is large scale, strategic conflict on the Mac. 
4444 This very involved war game will be enjoyed by those who like 
this genre. $49.95. FBI Software, 1155B-H Chess Dr., 
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Suspended is Infocom's most unique text game. Using a smal] 
4444 plastic board and six markers, the player keeps track of six 
uniquely designed robots which check on damage to a 
complex's machinery and report back what they perceive as 
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Ultima II players take the part of a character who travels through 
4444 land, sea, air, space and even time itself in a quest to find 
and defeat the evil sorceress Minax, Good Mac interface; 
excellent game; confusing graphics. $59.95. Sierra, PO Box 
485, Coarsegold, CA 93614. CP 
Ultima III allows up to four characters to cooperate to explore the 
44144 vast wilderness of Sosaria; dungeons, oceans, and the 
Moon Gates to help solve the adventure. $59,95. Origin 
Systems, 340 Harvey Rd,, Manchester, NH 03103. CP 
Winter Games lets up to eight players compete against each other 
4444 in Olympic events Including figure skating, bobsledding, 
biathlon and ski-jumping. Excellent animation, good graph¬ 
ics, good theme music. $39. Epyx, 1034 Kiel Ct., Sunnyvale, 
CA 94089. CP (Mar 86) 

Wizardry is an outstanding dungeon exploration adventure pitting 
44444 a party of up to six characters against the guardian monsters 
of the evil wizard Werdna, Capture his amulet to earn your 


reward. Even after solving the game, you'll want to go back 
into the dungeon. $59.95, Sir-Tech, 6 Main St,, Ggdens- 
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Word Challenge is a Boggle lookalike. Features multiple (26) skill 
4444 levels and an extensive dictionary. Even 'pro' Boggle 
players should find a level that will challenge them. $39.95. 
Hayden. 600 Suffolk St., Lowell, bAP 01854. CP 
Wordplay is a word game with over 50 crossword puzzles for 
4444 different levels of expertise. User friendly, it offers on¬ 
screen Help menus. $49,95. Palantir, 12777 Jones 
Rd., Houston, TX 77070, NCP (Mar 86) 

Xyphus is a role-playing game pitting four characters (fighters or 
4444 wizards) against multiple scenarios that grow increasingly 
harder. Excellent Mac interface and icon control. $39.95. 
Penguin, PO Box 311, Geneva, 1L 60134, CP 
Zork II is where the adventure continues in the underground 
44444 empire, A wandering wizard keeps things interesting, though 
there's a way to beat him if you persevere. $44,95. Infocom. 
125 CambridgePark Dr., Cambridge, MA 02140. CP 
Zork III is the final chapter in the trilogy. Players come up against 
the ultimate enemy — the Dungeonmaster himself. More 
closed-ended than previous Zorks. $44,95. Infocom, 125 
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at any point in a piece. Can read and use Concert Wa re and 
Mus/ctVorirs flies. $69,95. Great Wave Software, 104 Gil¬ 
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28-29. Ann Arbor Softworks Inc., 23 

6-7. Apple Computer, Inc., NA 

40. AST Research Inc., 214 

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167. Batteries Included, 51 

33. Baxter Group, The, 6 

161. Bay Systems, 102 

116-117. Bede Tech, 126 

107. Best Computer Supplies, 31 

C2 & 1. Borland International, 128 

174. Bravo Technologies, Inc., 234 


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173. Cauzin Systems, Inc., 151 

165. Central Point Software Inc., 105 

160 . CE Software, 38 

23. Chase Manhattan Bank, The, 54 

54. CMC Computer, 47 

93. Computer Cover Co., 202 

175 . Computer Friends, 200 

4. Cortland Computer, Inc., 198 

8. Cricket Software, 134 

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153. Diehl Graphsoft Inc., 242 

161 . Diversions, Inc., 231 

165. D^ Software, Inc., 176 

32. Dubl-Click Software, Inc., 108 

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73. Ehman Engineering, 58 

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134. Format Software, Inc., 239 

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113. Great Wave Software, 113 

79. Greene Johnson Inc., 44 

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135. ImageWorld, Inc., 223 

151. Imagine Software, 257 

153. Imagine Software, 258 

155. Imagine Software, 259 

C3. Infosphere, Inc., 110 

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160. ISM, Inc., 20 

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14. Living Videotext, 245 

128 . LM Software, 233 

24-25. Lotus Development, Corp., 26 


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169. MacDoctor Electronics, 162 

114 . MacMemory Inc., 115 

115 . MacMemory Inc., 116 

121. MacRentals, 152 

155. MacStore, Inc., 165 

55. Manx Software Systems, 194 

C4. Micahlnc., 163 

10-13. Microsoft Corp., NA 

141. Microsoft Corp., NA 

148. Microstore, 243 

168. Microtech Peripherals, Inc., 140 

5,19, 77... Mindscape, Inc., NA 

80-81. Mindscape, Inc., NA 

163. MultiVideo Inc., 19 

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144. Nordic Software, 227 

156-157. Northeastern Software, 76 

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129. Orange Micro Systems, 16 

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151. Paragon Courseware, 104 

18. PBI Software, 43 

64-67. PC Connection, 82 

94-95. PC Network, 30 

155. PDS Video Technology, Inc., 139 

159. Peachtree Technologies, Inc., 27 

48. Peak Systems, 174 


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& Supplies Inc., 218 

92. Personal Training Systems, 60 

154. Practical Computer Applications, 101 

153. Precision Data Products, 226 

48. ProAPP, Inc., 170 

44-45. Programs Plus, 69 

168. Pro Plus Software, 67 

91. PTI Industries, 14 




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162 . RH Electronics, Inc., 190 

161. Roc Software, 66 

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126. Scott, Foresman & Co., 121 

108. Sir-Tech Software Inc., 62 

34. SMS; Inc., 158 

176 . Soft Guard Systems, 191 

87. SoftStyle, Inc., 209 

54. Software Library, 15 

177 . Software Ventures Corp., 216 

175. Spectra Micro Development, 35 

22. Spectrum HolyByte Inc., 40 

163 . Spencer Organization, Inc., 56 

150 . Sun Data Software, 64 

38-39. SuperMac Technology, NA 

106. Symmetry Corp., 3 

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50. Target Software, 195 

174. TDI Software, Inc., 39 

132. Template Systems, Inc., 230 

170. Thunderware, Inc., 236 

46. T/Maker Co., 29 

130. TML Systems, 149 

151 . Tymlabs Corp., 52 

u 

148. Univation Inc., 70 

9. Uptime, 153 

163.: U.S. Disk Inc., 261 

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17. Videx, 37 

165.. Vision Technologies, 161 

W 

48 . Warp Nine Engineering, 178 

49 . Warp Nine Engineering, 179 

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147.. Zedcorlnc., 177 


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Date 

Check* 

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THE MONEY’S IN THE WORKS 


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Deposit 

Balance 

iCredit 

Debit 

Memo 







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Start a checkbook worksheet by setting up these columns. 

(continued from page 63) 
investment and its probable final 
value, you can determine the rate at 
which your investment is growing. 

If, for instance, you invest $5000 in 
artwork that you expect to be able to 
sell for $50,000 in 10 years: 

Rate( 10,0,-5000,50000,0,. 1) 
tells you that you*11 be getting a 26% 
return on the investment. 

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Ratc(l 0,-1500,-5000,50000,0,.!) 
returns 15%, 


payee and amount. It also has col¬ 
umns for a category and subcategory 
(Utility/Electric), although the sec¬ 
ond may not always be necessary; 
another column serves as a memo 
holder. 

An electronic checkbook has to 
allow for both checks and other 
expenses’—service charges, or auto- 


Deposit 
Cell above , 


Credit 


Check 



Debit 


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A 

B 

c 

a Uni 

0 

titled (SS) ■ 

E | F | G 

1 H | 

1 

Date 

Check* 

Payit 

Amount 

Category jSubCategoryjDeposit j 

i Balance 

2 

(Beginning Balance),................. 

."""I 

! 

3 


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Enter this formula into the Balance column and copy it down; keep the first cell under Balance free to 
enter your beginning balance. 


THE ELECTRONIC CHECKBOOK 

Forget about all the financial func¬ 
tions for a while, because you can 
use the Works spreadsheet to handle 
a very important financial basic: 
your checkbook. The advantage of 
keeping your checkbook on disk is 
not that ids so easy to balance—a 
calculator can help you do that with 
a lot less typing. One electronic 
advantage is chat you can search 
through a year’s worth of checks in 
seconds when you need to find, for 


instance, the one you wrote to die 
plumber. The second advantage is 
the sorting you can do at the end of 
the year for tax purposes: with a tew 
keystrokes, you can find the total for 
child care expenses, or all your medi¬ 
cal expenses. And, if you have to do 
something like figure out a “home 
office 71 deduction, getting the al¬ 
lowable expenses and calculating the 
deductible portion is a cinch. 

Being able to search and sort, 
though, assumes that you made 
memos in your electronic checkbook 
all along so you'd have something to 
look for and sort on. The sample 
checkbook shown here has columns 
for the basics of date, check number. 



A 

1 1 

C_1 

D I 

E 

F 

0 

H 

1 

Date 

Check* [Payee j Amount [Category 

SubCate^oryi 

Deposit 

Balance 

2 

(Beginning Balance) .. 



1297.64 

3 

10/15 

2132 

Mrs. Gerard 

'45.00 

ChildCare 



1252.64 

4 

10/15 

2133 

PSE&G 

67.87 

Utility 

Electric 


1184.77 

5 

10/15 

2134 

ConTel 

143.84 

Utility 

Telephone 


1040.93 

G 

10/15 

2135 

Dr. Colfax 

50.00 

Medical 



990.93 

T 

10/15 

2136 

ChildLife 

235.67 

Misc 



755.26 

8 

10/15 

2137 

HB0 

32.00 

Utility 

Cable 


723.26 

9 

10/20 






89754 

1620.80 

10 

10/25 

2136 

NJMUG 

25,6 6 

Computer 

Club Dues 


Vs 95.00 

11 

10/50 

2139 

Mrs. Gerard 

45.00 

ChildCare 



1550.80 

12 

10/30 

2140 

1 st National 

645.97 

Mortgage 



904.83 


1 

J 

K 

Credit 

Debit 

Mem a 


123.78 

Loan Pmt 

100.00 


Overdraft advance 


.7.66 


Service charge 








Keeping your electronic 
spreadsheet up to date 
with information helps at 
tax time. 


matic loan payments—to be sub¬ 
tracted from die balance. It also has 
to allow for the deposits or other 
additions, such as automatic over¬ 
draft loans or interest in an interest- 
bearing account. 

The checkbook here is a very sim¬ 
ple worksheet. Only the Balance 
field has a formula in it: it takes the 
value in the cell directly above it, 
subtracts from it any number in the 
Amount or Expense columns, and 
adds to it anything from the Deposit 
or Credit columns. Enter the formu¬ 
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Rather than putting the category 
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have to make the necessary changes 
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As long as you enter appropriate 
notes and memos as you use your 
electronic checkbook, it will be easy 
to find anything you need, and to 
arrange things when rax time rolls 
around. 

Sharon Zardetto Aker is a MacUser Con¬ 
tributing Editor and author of many great 
computer books. 


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MODULA-2 

the successor to Pascal 


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Pascal and Modula-2 source code are nearly identical Modula-2 should be thought 
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Pascal) designed Modula-2 to replace Pascal. 


Added features of Modula-2 not found In Pascal 

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■ Dynamic strings that may be any 

subranges 

size 

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Modules for separate compilation 

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ARRAY OF REALS;) 

Interrupt structure 

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Mac Plus 

Benchmarks (secs) 

Compile 

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Execute 

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Float 

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8.6 

10.3 

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Calc 

6.8 

5.7 

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1736 bytes 

Null program 

5.7 

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— 

1100 bytes 


MODULE Sieve: 

MODULE Float; 

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FROM MathLibO IMPORT sin, In, exp, 

TYPE FlagRange = (O.Size): 

sqrt. arctan; 

FlagSet = SET OF FlagRange; 

VAR x.y: REAL; i: CARDINAL; 

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Prime, k. Count. Iter: CARDINAL. 

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y:= sqrt (x); y:= arctan (x); 

Count: = 0; 

x:= x ♦ 0.01; 

Flags:= FlagSet(); (* empty set ’) 

END 

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END float. 

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BEGIN ("$T-,$A-.$S-’) 

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END; 

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END; 

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END Sieve. 

END cald. 


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Frivolous name or not. Cricket 
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makes for a powerful combination. 
With Cricket Graph you might find 
yourself drawing conclusions with 
greater insight and perspective.^ 
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writer from Queens, NT. 


CRICKET GRAPH 

Overall Rating 

Follows Mac Interface 
Documentation 
On-Screen Help 
Performance 
Support 

Consumer Value 

Comments: A powerful, easy to use graph 
generator with outstanding analytical capa¬ 
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loss of the graph, without warning. List 
Price: SI95. Requires 512K+, External 
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Published by Cricket Software, 3508 Market 
St., Suite 206, Philadelphia. PA 19104, 
(215) 387-7955. Version reviewed: 1.0, 
dated February 18, 1986. Not copy 
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MicroPhone... sets the standards that general-purpose 
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,.. powerful and easy to use. At the same time, MicroPhone offers 
a full plate of advanced features that should 
please seasoned communicators!’ 


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,.. it has many features designed to make it easy 
for a novice to get started... its many options 
make it a power user’s delight.” 

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Impressive... makes macro creation easier than 
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where most communications programs fall short: 
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That for the novice, MicroPhone is the sim¬ 


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ACCESSORIES 

KRAFT MAC STICK 

QUICKSTICK- for Macusers, It’s a joystick, but 
flick a switch, aid QUICKSTICK is a mouse, 
compatible with all Macintosh mouse software. 
Joystick or mouse, QUICKSTICK is two controls 
in one. For information on Kraft joysticks and 
computer peripherals for Apple and ISM comput¬ 
ers, write: 

• Kraft Systems Inc. 

450 W. California Avenue 
Vista, CA 92083 
(619) 724-7146 

BARCODE 

BARCODE/MAG STRIPE READERS 

Barcode and magnetic stripe (credit card) readers 
for the Apple Macintosh are available separately 
or in a single compact unit. All readers connect 
between the keyboard and the Macintosh, and 
require no additional software or port. A powerful 
but simple program for printing Code 39 bar 
codes is also available. 

• TPS Electronics 
4047 Transport Street 
Palo Alto, CA 94303 
(415) 856 6833 

BUSINESS 

ACCOUNTING AT YOUR FINGERTIPS 

BPI General Accounting for the Macintosh In¬ 
cludes all the advanced features of a complete 
accounting system: Six special journals to record 
entries unique to your business. Subsidiary 
ledgers for Accounts Receivable, Accounts Pay¬ 
able, Payroll. Automatic check writing. Automat¬ 
ic double-entry accounting. Flexible chart of 
accounts, Comprehensive financial reports, 'Se¬ 
lect 1 ' menu. 

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3001 Bee Cave Road 
Austin, TX 78746 
(512) 328-5434 


DIRECTORY 


LOOKING BETTER WITH CLICKART® 

ClickArt Publications - specifically designed for 
creating newsletters $49.95 - ClickArt Holidays * 
dozens of holiday images $49.95 - ClickArt 
Effects - produce special effects with MacPaint or 
FullPaint $49.95 - ClickArt Letters - 24 high- 
quality fonts - $49.95 - ClickArt Personal Graph¬ 
ics - contemporary images $49.95. 

• T/Maker Company 
1973 Landings Drive 
Mountain View, CA 94043 
(415) 962-0195 

MACAiD PROJECTS 

MAC AID PRQJECT+™ works with MacProjectTM 
to enhance project planning and control. Features 
include: input from THINKTANK512TM; expanded 
reporting; actual vs plan review: resource 
smoothing; sub-project/p reject combination; in¬ 
put of ''actual 1 ' project information. - $99.95 
Visa/MC. Available 8/86. Dealers Call. 

• Common Sense Software, Inc.™ 

12 Whitehall Court 

Buffalo Grove. IL 60089 
(312) 541-5200 

COMMUNICATIONS 

MAC-3000 TERMINAL EMULATOR 

MAC-3000 provides users with full terminal 
emulation of a Hewlett-Packard 2624A Block 
Mode Terminal. Features also include Macter- 
minal compatibility for the IBM3278 and DEC 
VT1Q2 terminals. Additional features are key 
equivalents for HP screen commands, file trans¬ 
fers, extended screen memory, mouse oriented 
cursor positioning and more Retail price: $99 00 

• International Computer Consultants 
1311 Clegg Street 

Petaluma, CA 94952 
(707) 765-9200 

PCLINK VAX/STRATUS/MAC LINK 

pcLINK is the first fully functional Macintosh 
product for VAX (VMS and LILTRIX) and Stratus 
systems. Terminal emulation (VT22Q, VT241, 
TV950, ADDS-60, VI02); File Transfer (ASCII, 
binary, MacBinary); Virtual Disk; both host and 
Macintosh print services, Powerful Macintosh 
style user interface. Also supports IBM PCs, 
XTs, ATs and compatibles. 

• Pacer Software, Inc. 

7911 Herschel Avenue, Suite 402 
La Jolla, CA 92037 
(619) 454-0565 


COMPUTER FURNITURE 

NEW WALL-HUNG MAC.DESK 

Fine cabinetry, efficiency for your Macintosh. 
Cherry, white oak or birch veneers. Locking fold¬ 
down desk surface. Easy to install. Suitable for 
office, home. Send for brochure. $579 + ship¬ 
ping + tax. Attractively designed by Mac user 
and quality woodworker to keep Mac and acces¬ 
sories safe, clean, easy to operate, 

• The Miters Touch 
Rt. 2, Box 78A 
Vilas, MC 28692 
(704) 297-1558 

WORKSTATION FURNITURE 

Our E2 Series 1 furniture for PC owners uses 
materials that maximize long-term value and 
functionality, including multiple-lamination, high- 
strength plywood, attractive laminates, and higji 
quality hardware. Design features Include modu¬ 
lar components, radiused corners, exposed- 
wood rounded edges, a refined, professional 
look. Call for free copy of catalog! 

• E2 Corporation 

22931 S.E, 37th Street 
Issaquah, WA 98027 
(800) 225-8340 

CONSULTING SERVICES 

CONSULTING BY BEAR RIVER 

Bear River Associates develops Macintosh soft¬ 
ware and offers unique consulting services to 
companies developing Macintosh products, Ser¬ 
vices include; user interface design, porting 
products to and from the Macintosh, and new 
product design and development. Call us to 
discuss how we can help get your Macintosh 
products to the market. 

• Bear River Associates, Inc. 

2000 Center Street, Suite 103 
Berkeley, CA 94704 

(415) 644-9400 

DESKTOP PUBLISHING 

FLUENT LASER FONTS 

Volume 1 through 6 are shipping. Add to your 
LaserWriter with high quality Postscript fonts, 
rea sonably p ric ed. A utom ati c down I o ad i n g, print 
any size, compatiblity with PageMaker 1,2, sup¬ 
port of Western European & Scandinavian lan¬ 
guages. Write or Call/Samples Order: (800) 331« 
4321 In Calif: (800) 851-1986 

• Casady Company 
P.0, Box 223779 
Carmel, CA 93922 
(408) 646-4660 

DRAWART - MACDRAW ART LIBRARY 

More than 150 'publishing - quality” images in 
the categories of Publishing, Clip-Art, 3D/CAD. 
Drafting and Drawings. Highest quality art for 
your Mac - Superior to anything you've seen for 
MacPaint - Make your documents sparkle - you’d 
be smart to get DrawArt today” - Icon Review, 
Requires 512K and MacDraw. 

• Desktop Graphics 

400 Country Drive, Suite H 
Dover, DE 19901 
(302) 736-9098 


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LASER PRINTING SERVICES 

Linotype LI 00 output $6/page (volume discounts 
available) from Mac/IBM disks, LaserWriter SI 
per page. One day return in most cases. Modem 
services available. In house offset & bindery 
services available at low, low prices, SCSI hard 
drives at the lowest prices (LoDown 20 Meg at 
$694; Mirror 20 Meg $1088). 

• Laser Printing Services 
26058 W. 12 Mile Road 
Southfield, Ml 48034 

(313) 356-1004 In Ml, (800) 722-3475 

MAC-ART LIBRARY 

Illustrate your DTP ideas with the MAC-ART 
LIBRARY! Twelve disks fill of professional Mac¬ 
Paint images: Animals, Buildings, Farm Life, 
F lo we rs/T ree s/Plants, Geography, Greeting 
Cards, Kitchen, People, Signs/Symbols/Borders, 
Sports, Tools, Transportation, Single disks: 
$39.95, Complete library: $250.00. Variety Pak 
(single disk sampler): $49.95, Add $3,00 for 
shipping/handling. 

• CompuCRAFT 
P,Q, Box 3155 
Englewood, CO 
(303) 850-7472 

MACPALETTE 

MacPalette by Microspot enables you to print 
multicolored pictures and text from existing 
Macintosh software using the I mage writer II. 
MacPalette will colorprint your existing docu¬ 
ments from MacDraw, MacDraft, MacProject, 
MacWrite, JAZZ, Microsoft Chart, Word, etc. 
(not MacPaint). It now prints black as a true 
black instead of mixing a black, 

• CompServCo 

800 Freedom Lane 
Slidell, LA 70458 
(800) 272-5533 or (504) 649-0484 

TYPESETTING FOR THE MACINTOSH 

Alphabet Soup is the desktop publishing resource 
for high quality type and graphics from your 
Macintosh. We offer Linotronic 100 (1270 dpi) 
and Laser Writer (300 dpi) output. Your files can 
be sent to us by mailer by modem. Cal! Alphabet 
Soup for more information and a brochure today! 

• Alphabet Soup, Inc. 

2822 Van Mess Avenue 
San Francisco, CA 94109 
(415) 885-3156 

DISKETTE COPY SERVICE 

DUPLICATION 

100% error free, clean room environment, quick 
turnaround, lifetime guarantee. 8" t 5VY\ and 
3 Y 2 " highest quality diskettes. Colored media 
available. Copy protection and serialization. 
Complete packaging and assembly. International 
distribution. Dependable, personalized service. 
Call collect for a competitive quote. 

• CMP Computer Media Products 
4760 Murphy Canyon Road 
San Diego, CA 92123 

(619) 565-7602 


DOCUMENT MODELING 

DOCUMENT MODELER 

Computer Modeling toolkit to build models for 
commonly used, complex documents such as 
legal contracts, sales proposals, and medical 
reports. The Model prompts for information and 
then automatically finds the right paragraphs, 
performs all calculations, and formats a finished 
MacWrite document, ready for printing, 

• The Model Office Company 
49 Wellington Street East 
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5E 1C9 
(800) 268-8181 

EDUCATIONAL 

CONCEPTS ATLAS 

Puts a three-dimensional globe on the screen, 
Display any view, enlarge or reduce it, call up 
facts about every country and major city in the 
world, find the distance between any two points, 
label cities, print maps with MacPaint. Price: 
$49.95, A Teacher s Guide is available for $4.95. 

• Software Concepts 
P.O. Box 620 
Brooklyn, NY 11215 

P0WERMATH 

PowerMath is computer algebra for the Macin¬ 
tosh. Type your problem, using conventional 
math notation, and PowerMath will solve your 
calculus, algebra and matrix problems. Power- 
Math does factorials, summations, simultaneous 
equations, plots, Taylor series, trigonometry, 
and allows unlimited number size. It is your matt) 
slave for $100. 

• industrial Computations Inc. 

40 Washington Street 
Wellesley, MA 02181 
(617) 235-5080 

SOFTWARE FOR KIDS 

With MATCH-ON-A-MAC your pre-K to 2nd grad¬ 
er can work with 11 entertaining games matching 
letters, numbers, pictures, shapes, and quanti¬ 
ties. A unique Lesson Plan option allows you to 
individualize each computer session. Also In¬ 
cludes a Report Card option and manuaL128K or 
larger. $39.95, S&H $2.50 

• Teach Yourself by Computer Software 
2128 W. Jefferson Road 

Pittsford, NY 14534 
(716) 427-7065 

ENGINEERING 

CAE AUTOMATED LOGIC ENTRY 

Why pay more?. McNET schematic capture on the 
Mac. Build components, enter logic design (digi¬ 
tal, analog, etc.), and generate net list. Truly a 
professional quality, and favored as best on Mac 
by our customers, McNET professional $250; 
McNET college $99; +$7 shipping. Visa 
accepted. 

• Argus Software 
P.O. Box 1033 

Stone Mountain, GA 30086-1033 
(404) 296-9666 


STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING 

Analysis programs, design aids, structure, load, 
tension, shear, moment, deflected shape dia¬ 
grams; input, output texts; section table, more. 
Full Macintosh interface. Compiled, Fra me-Mac 
(2-D frames, trusses, beams; MacDraw-like in¬ 
terface) $495; BEAM AC II (continuous, simple 
beams) $295; BEAMAC (simple beams) $95. 
Money-back guarantee. Free support. Any demo 
$ 10 . 

• Erez Anzel 

5800 Arlington Avenue, #5T 
Riverdale, NY 10471 
(212) 884-5798 

EXTERNAL RAMDISKS 

DASCH 

The lowest price ever! 

-200OK DASCH $545.00- 
-1000K DASCH $450.00- 

• 50QK DASCH $395.00- 

One year warranty - Factory Upgradable - Now 
Shipping 

Visa/Mastercard Dealers Welcome 

Call Toll Free (800) 227-4637 

• Western Automation 
1700 N. 55th Street 
Boulder, CO 80301 

(303) 449-6400 (800) 227-4637 

FILE SERVER 

THE KEEPER PLUS 

The Keeper Plus is a true intelligent file server for 
the Macintosh. AppleTalk Network, offering fea¬ 
tures such as print spooling and the ability to 
operate without a dedicated PC or Macintosh, it 
offers a range of storage capacities from 20 MB 
to 80 MB with optional removable cartridge back* 
up capability. 

• REACH Technologies, Inc. 

PO Box 9802, Suite 925 
Austin, TX 78766 

(512) 280-1977 (800) 523-8392 

FONTS 

DOWNLOADABLE LASER FONTS 

Specialized fonts for the LaserWriter. Classical 
Greek, $85. Serif/sans-serif for scientific texts, 
$75. Font of 100 chemical structures, $125 (with 
scientific text fonts, $160). Polish serif or sans- 
serif, $85 each (four styles). Serif small caps, 
$40 (four styles), regular or Polish. Soon: 
modern Greek. Visa/MC, university PCTs. 

• Allotype Typographies 

1600 Packard Road, Suite 5 
Ann Arbor, Ml 48104 
(313) 663-1989 

GAMES/ENTERTAINMENT 

A FREE SHANGHAI™ GAME ON US! 

What a deal! A free offer with a 3,000 year 
guarantee. Get a Shanghai demonstration disk 
containing a single tantalizing puzzle, sure to wet 
your appetite for the billions of game options in 
the complete disk. Write for your free Shanghai 
Demo. Enclose a $3 check for postage and 
handling. 

• Activision, Inc, 

P.O. Box 7287 
Mountain View, CA 94039 

(800) 227-9759 Calif. (415) 960-0410 


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GAMES/ENTERTAINMENT 

rrS HERE AT LAST! 

Challenging, exciting games from around the 
world for the Macintosh, Stakes are high at the 
casino where BLACKJACK and ROULETTE create 
millionaires. Try your tuck in a mean card game 
at the SALOON. Test your mind playing CONCEN¬ 
TRATION, All 4 games for one low price. Send 
$24.95 (postage included) to: 

• Games Galore Softwares 1 
P.O. Box 1145 

Soring, TX 77383 

GRAPHICS 

DRAFTING 

SKETCH-TO-SCALE PLUS 

Designers, draftsmen, contractors, do-it-your¬ 
selfers; Two and three dimensional scale draw¬ 
ings with screen overlay templates. Produce fast, 
accurate drawings in 16 different scales. Use 
symbols disk to instantly access pre-drawn kitch¬ 
en cabinetwork, piumbing/electrical fixtures, fur¬ 
niture, windows, doors, sample floor plans. 
Paste symbols onto MacDraw™ or MacDraft™ 
$74,95 

• Williams AG Products 

8282 South Memorial, Suite 118 
Tulsa, OK 74133 
(918) 252-7477 

MACPLOT & MACCAD 

MacPfot by Microspot is a powerful plotter driver 
which will plot any object oriented graphics 
produced on Mac in up to 30 colors/pens. It 
supports over 45 plotters, MacCAD is a series of 
12 seperate architectural and engineering tem¬ 
plate libraries for use with either MacDraw or 
MacDraft (specify which). 

• CompServCo 

800 Freedom Lane 
Slidell, LA. 70458 
(800) 272-5533 or (504) 649-0484 

MGMSTATION-CAD DRAFTING 

MGMStatron - CAD Drafting by Micro CAO/CAM, 
Inc., is powerful, easy to use CAD program for 
Mac similar in performance to Autocad for IBM- 
PC. MGMStation boasts over 140 powerful func¬ 
tions including: XY coordinate, polar or digital 
data input; 100X zoom; accuracy to 4 decimals, 
etc. 

Demo disk /VCR tape available - $799. 

• CompServCo 

800 Freedom Lane 
Slidell, LA. 70458 
(800) 272-5533 Or (504) 649-0484 

PRISM - COLOR SYSTEM $599 

Display any Macintosh graphic in fuli color and 
high resolution! (512 x 416 pixel with a palette of 
4096 colors) The Prism™ color graphics inter¬ 
face attaches to either Mac/Mac and serial port 
and drives RGB or NTSC color monitors. Color 
video or slide presentation graphics are a snap. 
Monitors also available. 

• Micro Conversions, fnc. 

1900 E. Randol Mill Road, Suite 103 

Arlington, TX 76011 

(800) 237-6622, in TX (817) 860-2291 


DIRECTO RY 



PRINT MAC GRAPHICS ANY SIZE 

Poster Maker 2.0 turns your Mac into a profes¬ 
sional Banner and Sign Making Machine. Enlarge 
or reduce graphics from 1%-32Q0%, in 1% 
increments. New features include: Built-in text 
entry with Smooth Fonts (PICT-type characters 
that stay smooth when enlarged, automatic 
rotation, and MacDraw compatibility). Requires 
512K. $59,95 + $3.00 shipping. 

• Strider Software 
Beecher Lake Road 
Pembine, Wl 54156 
(715) 324-5487 

DESKTOP ART 

Published by Dynamic Graphics, Inc,, DeskTop 
Art is a new product line of professional illustra¬ 
tions and graphics. The publisher has been the 
world s leading source of camera-ready and 
creative resources for 23 years. First two vol¬ 
umes, Graphics & Symbols 1 and Artfolio 1, 
offer selected art as MacPaint files, 

• Dynamic Graphics, Inc. 

6000 N. Forest Park Drive 
Peoria, IL 61614 

(309) 688-8800 

GRAPHICS AND EDUCATION 

OPTICAL ILLUSIONS DATA DISK 

The MacPaint figures on this disk are a great clip 
art source for a variety of desktop publishing 
needs and are a must for anyone interested in the 
mechanics of vision. The User's Guide contains a 
bibliography, glossary and tips for conducting 
mind twisting experiments. $39.95 $CDM (MX. 
Accepted), 

• ArtBase 

815 Princess Avenue 
Vancouver B.C., Canada V6A 3E5 
(604) 255-8077 

HEALTH AND NUTRITION 

NUTRLCALC™ 

Start eating right with Nutri-Calc! Nutri-Calc lets 
you analyze and plan diets and menus for 
nutritional content quickly and easily. User main¬ 
tainable food database included 870 foods and is 
expandable to 1000. Includes comparison to the 
government RDA r s energy sources analysis, 
plots user history, and other graphical displays, 

• Camde Corporation 

4435 S. Rural Road, Suite 331 
Tempe, AZ 85282 
(602) 821-2310 

INSURANCE 

SAFEWARE INSURANCE 

If your computer is important to you, insure it! 
SAFEWARE provides full replacement of hard¬ 
ware, media and purchased software. As little as 
$39 a year covers fire, theft, power surge, 
earthquake, water damage, and auto accident. 
Call Sam to 8pm Monday thru Friday. Saturday 
9am to 5pm, 

• Safe ware, The Insurance Agency, fnc. 

2929 ft High Street, P.O Box 02211 
Columbus, OH 43202 

(614) 262-0559 (OH), (800) 848-3469 (NAT) 


INVESTMENT SOFTWARE 

MARKET PRO™ 

The First Fully-Integrated Portfolio Management 
System for Macintosh - Portfolio Manager, Tech¬ 
nical Analysis and Fundamental Analysis. P.M - 
ten detailed reports. Access 17,000+ stocks 
plus mutual funds, indexes, and bonds for T.A.; 
FA 11,000+ companies via I P. Sharp Data¬ 
base. Works with Laser Writer. $395. (!nd. 
modules available - Si 95. Commodities package 
avail.). 

• Pro Plus Software, Inc. 

2830 E. Brown Road, Suite C-l2 
Mesa, AZ 85203 
(800) 992-2919 

LANGUAGE TOOLS 

PASCAL EXTENDER/C EXTENDER 

Compiled library routines provide fast, flexible, 
modifiable Mac interface (menus, windows, 
scrollbars, dialogs, etc.) plus graphics printing, 
text editing, zooming, picture "grabber”, and 
more. 200 pg, manual with many demos. Mac- 
Pascal 2 0 or TML Pascal compiler versions: 
$89.95. Megamax C or Aztec C versions: 
5129.95. Consular, Lightspeed C: call 

• Invention Software Corporation 
P.O. Box 3168 

Ann Arbor, Ml 48106 
(313) 996-8108 

LASER PRINTING SERVICES 

FAST TURNAROUND, LOW COST 

We Laser Print anything! Send Mac document 
(Write, Paint, Word, etc.) for lowest cost and 
fastest turnaround, Apple II and IBM disks, hard 
copy, or use modem. Try our comprehensive 
editorial and page layout services. Optional Lino- 
tron/Compugraphie output. Desktop Publishing 
consultation and training available, Major credit 
cards accepted. 

• LaserText 

25-30 30th Road, #4i 
New York, NY 11102 
(718) 204-8837 

LASER TYPESET FROM MAC DISK 

ProTypography can output your Macintosh files 
on our 2450 dpi L300 laser typesetter. You can 
send your flies by modem, or you can mail your 
disk You will receive the highest quality typeset¬ 
ting available, and the support of a professional 
staff. $10 per page for 8Y 2 " x 11". Quantity 
discounts available. 

• ProTypography, Inc, 

361 West Superior Street 
Chicago, IL, 60610 
(312) 266-8973 

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS 

WATERLOO MACJANET 

A network for Apple Macintosh's designed by 
educators for educators. Waterloo MacJanet 
creates an interactive efassroom network using 
Macintosh workstations connected via Appletalk. 
Waterloo MacJanet features ease of administra¬ 
tion, standard Macintosh user interface, secure 
file-sharing, and spooled print to the Laser¬ 
Writer. 

• WATCOM Products, Inc, 

415 Phillip Street 

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3X2 
(519) 886-3700 Telex 06955458 


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MAIL ORDER 

PERSONAL SOFTWARE SERVICE 

Constantly updated broad Macintosh selection. 
Prompt, personalized, hassle free service and 
competitive prices. No "Backorder 11 or ''Wait¬ 
lists’\ Your payment accepted only when order 
shipped. School and Corporate purchase orders 
welcome, net in 30 days. Hours 9-5 Mon-Fri and 
8-12 Sat, Pdt, Free price list. 

• Pacific Prime Trading 
2522 Artesia Boulevard 
Redondo Beach, CA 90278 
(213) 376-5820 

MEDICAL/DENTAL 

MEDICAL & DENTAL MANAGEMENT 

Solo or multi-practitioner office includes patient 
(responsible party) billing, recall, paper/elec¬ 
tronic claims, aging, collections, SuperBill, la¬ 
bels, diagnostic history, Wo rid/Mac Write, audit 
& productivity reports. 24hr Support. 512k + 
Hard Disk or XL, Mac Office Demo from $100. 
Amex/MC/Visa. 2.400+ dealers. 

• CMA Micro Computer Division 
55888 Yucca Trail, PQ Box 2080 
Yucca Valley, CA 92286-2080 
(619) 365-9718 

NETWORKING HARD DISK 
DRIVES 

SUNOL SYSTEMS FILE SERVER 

Sunol Systems SUM*MUFS (Multi User File 
Server), total Appletalk compatible file server for 
Macintosh. SUN*MUFS allows multiple users to 
access same file simultaneously, providing inex¬ 
pensive solution to networking your Macintosh 
environment. SUN*STREAK model features SCSI 
Interface for Macintosh. SUN‘DISK model net¬ 
works Apple, IBM, EPSON, Zenith, etc, 

• Sunol Systems, Inc, 

1177 Quarry Lane 
Pleasanton, CA 94566 
(415) 484-3322 

PRINTER DRIVERS 

PRINTER CHOICE WITH MACINTOSH 

The Print-Link™ Software allows a variety of 
daisywheel and dot matrix printers to work with 
all Macintosh TM computers. Simple installation 
using " Chooser" or "Choose Printer 1 '. Support¬ 
ed printers too numerous to list. Unique spacing 
done automatically on daisywheels You are not 
restricted to standard 10/12/15 cpi selection, 

• GDT Softworks, Inc. 

Suite D - 2800 Douglas Road 
Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5C 3R5 
Order (800) 663-MACC Info (604) 291-9121 

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES 

MACFORTH PLUS 

New multi-tasking language and 32-bit operating 
environment. Includes turnkey compiler, assem¬ 
bler, new text editor and switcher compatibility. 
Faster implementation designed to take advan¬ 
tage of Mac Plus features and compatible across 
popular micros- Atari ST and Amiga. Upgrade 
from L2 MacForth - S49, or new $299. Compu¬ 
Serve net GO FORTH. 

• Creative Solutions, Inc. 

4701 Randolph Rd. T Suite 12 

Rockville. MD 20852 

(800) FQRTH-OK or (301) 984-0262 


DIRECTOR 



PUBLIC DOMAIN SOFTWARE 

MAC PUBLIC DOMAIN 

Over 140 disks, thousands of programs. The 
best, most complete collection available, $10 per 
disk. No membership fee. Choose from business 
software, taxes, terrific games, graphics, pro¬ 
grams, utilities, desk accessories, function keys, 
disk editors, copy programs, music, and girls. 
Carefully organized with documentation. For 44- 
page catalog send $1. 

• Educomp 

2431 Oxford Avenue 
Cardiff, CA 92007 
(619) 942-3838 

PUBLIC-DOMAIN DISKS $5.00 

Hundreds of public-domain and "shareware" 
programs available through the MacKey Mouse 
Club. $5/disk ppd USA; no membership fees. 
Monthly newsletter, reviews public-domain and 
commercial software and technical issues of 
interest to Mac users, $14/yr. subscription. Send 
for free sample issue and disk catalog. 

• MacKey Mouse Club 
P.G. Box 4561-A 
Lincoln, NE 68504 
(402) 466-0252 

REAL ESTATE 

PROFESSIONAL QUALITY 

From the leader in real estate software, complete 
library of products for investors, brokers, devel¬ 
opers, lenders: Investment Analysis ($195); 
M o rt g age Q ual ifi e r ($ 195); Co m me rrial/l nd u st ria I 
Applications ($100); Tax Shelter Syndication 
($295); Residential Real Estate ($100); Property 
Management, Level 1 ($250) and more. Most 
require 512K and Excel™. Tax updates available, 

• RealData, Inc. 

78 N. Main Street 
S. Norwalk, CT 06854 
(203) 838-2732 

SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING 

MACCELERATOR FPU 

Maccelerator is a small clip-on board for the 
512K Mac and Mac+ which will dramatically 
increase floating point calculation speeds. Quick- 
Sane, a replacement for Apple's floating point 
software package is provided and a X" compiler 
for $495, including installation kit. 

• Guesse Computer Company 
P n Rriif Q2P 

Issaquah, WA 98027-0922 
(206) 392-7701 

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS 
SOFTWARE 

STAT80™ BY STATWARE 

STAT80 offers a complete range of statistical 
capabilities, from simple descriptive statistics to 
hypothesis testing and multiple and stepwise 
regression. The Professional version adds clus¬ 
ter, canonical correlation and factor analysis 
along with complex matrix calculations, Requires 
at least 512K and external disk drive. For more 
information call or write. 

• STATWARE. Inc. 

P.O. Box 510881 

Salt Lake City. UT 84151 
(800) STAT80-S or (801) 521-9309 


CLR ANOVA 

Analysis of Variance program that can compute 
up to a 10-way design with repeated measures 
and unequal n. Marginal means, plots of interac¬ 
tions, simple effects, range tests, contrasts, and 
more! Full Mac interface. Data can be imported 
from other applications. MCA/isa $75 + $3 s/h. 
Orders: (800) 835-2246X199 

• Clear Lake Research 
5615 Morningside, #127 
Houston, IX 77005 
Kansas (800) 362-2421X199 

TEASE WARE UTILITY 

CATftMAC, NEW HFS VERSION 1.2 

Cat«Log File Utility, Version 1.2 organizes 
HD/floppy libraries. Find lost HFS files fast. 
Highest file capacity. Many new (1,2) features. 
"Save As Text", "Print", "Read" and "Directory 
Name" selections. Free Level 1 from networks, 
B.B ’s & Mug's ($10 donation requested). $10 
credit + $14.95 (=$24.95 + $2 shipping), 
Level 11. Order below. 

• Phenix Specialties, Inc, 

2981 Corvin Drive 
Santa Clara, CA 95051 
(408) 733-9625 

WORD PROCESSING 

Maclqrt/EQUATION PROCESSOR 

MacSqn is a desk accessory equation processor 
that lets you include complicated mathematical 
equations in your technical documents. MacSqn 
supports integrals, sums, products, multiline 
expressions, roots, super and subscripts on the 
same character. Automatic character sizing, etc. 
$44.95.Educational discounts available. 

• Software for Recognition Technologies 
110 University Park 

Rochester, NY 14620 
(716) 461-0923 

WRITING TOOL 

WRITER'S WORKSHOP 

Track ideas, manuscripts, set layouts, submis¬ 
sions; evaluate publisher s rates: enter one query 
letter and send to all publishers on file. Maintain 
bibliograghic/reference notes. Keep income/ex- 
perse records. Create market types/reference 
categories. Complete documentation. Runs on 
512K, Plus, XL with external/hard drive. $59.95. 
Free brochure. 

• Futuresoft System Designs, Inc. 

P.O. Box 132 

New York, NY 10012-0132 
(212) 674-5195 

X-10 POWERHOUSE 

CP290 HOME CONTROL INTERFACE 

Controls lights and appliances for security and 
comfort. Can be disconnected from your Macin¬ 
tosh after programming - does not tie up your 
Mac. Has battery back-up. Controls 256 X-10, 
Sears, Radio Shack, G.E., Leviton or BSR 
modules over existing house wiring. List price 
$79.99 with software and cable Modules - list 

7 90 

• X-10 (USA), Inc, 

185A LeGrand Avenue 
Northvale, NJ 07647 

(201) 784-9700 (800) 526-0027 


NOVEMBER 1 9 8 & MACDS ER1S1 







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through the house,not a creature zoos stirring 
not .ev$n a tyfOVlS'L . 

'The children zoere tucked azuaij in their beds 
zuhile visions Sf'■software danced in their heads 


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AMERICAN COVERS 

MOUSE MAT BLUE.RED.GRAY 

7.00 

C- ENTERPRISES 

MAC+ TO HAYES CABLE 

18.00 

MAC 512K TO IMAGEWRITER 1 

18.00 

MAC+ CONVERTOR CABLE 

18.00 

MAC 512K TO HAYES MODEM 

18.00 

CURT 

EMERALD 

34.25 

RlUBY 

51.25 

SAFESTRIP 

17.50 

SAPPHIRE 

4T5.50 

DISC BLACk RIBBONS 

4 50 

BROWN.BLUE.GREEN.RED. 

5.50 

PRINTER STAND 80 COL. 

35.00 

PRINTER STAND 132 COL. 

39.00 

ENVIRONMENTAL SOFT CO 

COLORS RED. BLUE. GRAY. 

IMAGEWRITER WIDE- 

10.75 

LASERWRITER COVER- 

14.00 

MAC 800K COVER 

5.25 

MAC COVER W/KEYBOARD- 

15.00 

AND MANY MORE 

CALL 


ERGOTRON 

"MACBUFFER/256K.512K.1MEG 

MACTILT 

INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES/THE I 
DISC DIRECTORY 
THE LIBRARY 
THE POCKET PAK 
KENSINGTON MICROWARE 
POLARIZING FILTER 
CONTROL.CENTER 
MAC DISK DRIVE CLEAN KIT 


Call 
64 00 
EASEL11 00 
17.00 
27.00 
8.00 


IMAGEWRITER BAG 
MAC BAG 
MAC PLUS BAG 
MAGNUM 

MOUSE MOVER 

RING KING RING KING 050 TRAY 
UP WRITE PRINTER STAND 
12X15 
12X24 

SAVING ZONE 

6 OUTLET SURGE PROTECTOR 
SOFT STYLE 

MAHOGANY CHEST 96-DISKS 

BUSINESS SOFTWARE 

ADVANCED LOGIC SYSTEMS 
NEW HANDLER 
MIGHTY MAC 
WORD HANDLER 
AEGIS DEVELOPMENT 

MAC MAIL TELECOM 34.10 

THE HOUSEKEEPER 34.10 

WORD TOOLS 48.00 

BLYTHE SOFTWARE and MULTIUSER 
OMNIS 3 PLUS 297.00 

BRAIN POWER STATVIEW 113.80 

STATVIEW 512+ 210.20 


WORD (WORD PROCESSING) 111.00 

J BOOKS CALL 

MONOGRA DOLLARS & SENSE 86.22 

| FORECAST 34.47 

ODESTA DOUBLE HELIX - 283.00 

|; RUN TIME HELIX/10 APPLICAT 285.00 

OPEN SYSTEMS 

OPEN FOR BUSINESS II 495.00 

"PERIPHERALS, SUPPLIES, & C" 

VERSA TERM 65.25 

PERSONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC 

PROFESS BIBLIOGRAPHIC SY.209.00 

PROVUE OVERVUE 169.75 

SIERRA ON-LINE MAC ONE WRITE 140.87 

SIMON & SCHUSTER TYPING TUTOR III 34.47 

SINGULAR SOFTWARE INTERLACE- 96.00 

SOFTSTYLE DECISION MAP CALL 

SOFTVIEW MACINTAX FEDERAL 43.12 

MACINTAX BUSINESS SUP: 17.25 

MACINTAX STATE SUPPLEMENTS 17.25 

STATSOFT DATAFAST 49.00 

STONEWARE D B MASTER 112.12 

TARGET AMC LIGHTING v2.0 57.00 

THESARUS 33.00 

TELOS BUSINESS FILEVISISON 227.00 

FILEVISION 112.25 

CREATIVE AND EDUCATIONAL 

DAVIDSON & ASSOC. 

MATH BLASTER 28.50 

SPEED READER II 40.22 

ELECTRONIC ARTS 

DELUXE MUSIC CONST. SET 32.50 

ESOFT ENTERPRISES 

CHRISTMAS CARD CONST SET 18.25 

COLOR CHART 60.25 

AND MORE CALL 

FIRST BYTE KIDTALK 45.75 

SMOOTHTALKER 56.75 

SPELLER BEE 45.50 

FORTNUM SOFTWARE 

MAC CHEMISTRY 98.98 

MAC NEST 33.50 

GREAT WAVE KIDS TIME 30.00 

HAYDEN MANY TITLES AVAILABLE 

HAYDEN.(COLLEGE BOARD ACH) 57.00 

G.R.E. (GRAD RECORD EXAM) 57.00 

SCORE IMPROVEMENT SYS/SAT 57.47 

TURBO TURTLE 28.72 

MINDSCAPE S.A.T. 47.00 

SIMON & SCHUSTER 

GREAT INTL PAPER AIRPLANE 22.97 

UNICORN SOFTWARE GREAT EDUCATION 
FUTURIA 25.00 

UTOPIA 25.00 

MAC ROBOTS 27.00 

ANIMAL KINGDOM 27.00 

FRACTION ACTION 27.00 

MATH WIZARD 27.00 

DECIMAL DUNGEON 27.00 

READ A RAMA 35.00 


GAMES 

ACTIVISION ALTEREAGO 
AEGIS DEVELOPMENT 
MAC CHALLENGER 
PYRAMID OF PERIL 

ANN ARBOR SOFTWORKS GRID WARS 
ARTWORX BRIDGE 4.0 
MACSTRIP 
BLUE CHIP BARON 
MILLIONAIRE 
SQUIRE OR TYCOON 
BRODERBUND CYBORG 
ANCIENT ART OF WAR 
LODE RUNNER 
DATAPA C MAC POKER 
MAC JACK 2 

ELECTRONIC ARTS ARCHON 
ONE ON ONE 

PINBALL CONSTRUCTION SET 
SKY FOX 

SOFTWARE GOLDEIN OLDIES 
EPYX ROGUE 

TEMPLE OF APSHAI TRILOGY 
WINTER GAMES 
HAYDEN HOLY GRAIL 
SARGON III 

INFOCOM SPELL BREAKER 
BALLYHOO 

A MIND FOREVER VOYAGING 
CUTTHROATS OR WISHBRINGER 
ENCHANTER OR HITCHHIKERS 
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SORCERER OR INFIDEL 

25.85 

MACDRAFT 

145.00 

MICROSOFT 


STARCROSS 

28.72 

PASTE EASE VOL 2 

30.00 

FORTRAN COMPLIER 

182.00 

SUSPECT 

25.85 

KOALA MAC K.A.T. 

135.67 

BASIC INTERPRETER 

85.50 

SUSPENDED OR DEADLINE 

28.72 

MAC VISION 

171.92 

ZEDCOR INC Z BASIC 

72.00 

ZORK 1 WITNESS 

22.97 

MAGNUM SOFTWARE MCPIC& VOL2 

28.72 

USIC WE HAVE EXPERTS TO HELP YOU 

ZORK 2 AND ZORK 3 

25.85 

SLIDE SHOW MAGICIAN 

34.47 

GREAT WARE SOFTWARE 


MICROSOFT 


MANHATTAN GRAPHICS THE TOP PERFORMER 

CONCERT WARE + 

39.95 

FLIGHT SIMULATOR 

32.00 

READY SET GO 

98.50 

CONCERT WARE + MIDI 

79.75 

MILES COMPUTING DOWN HILL R. 

28.75 

MILES COMPUT. MAC THE RIPPER 

28.00 

CONCERT WARE ♦ MIDI CABLE 

47.75 

’ FUSILLADE 

23.00 

MINDSCAPE COMIC WORKS 

35.98 

MUSIC VOL 1 THROUGH 5 EACH 

9.00 

MACWARS OR OVERLORDS 

28.75 

NEW IMAGE TECHNOLOGY 


HAYDEN MUSIC WORKS 

45.97 

HARRIER STRIKE MISSION 

28.72 

MAGIC VIDEO DIGITIZER 

275.00 

KETTE 


MAC ATTACK 

28.17 

DIGITIZER CAMERA 

185.50 

MAC NIFTY STEREO SYSTEM 

70.00 

MINDSCAPE BALANCE OF POWER 

31.25 

POLARWARE GRAPHICS MAGICIAN 

45.75 

MAC NIFTY AUDIO DIGITIZER 

105.00 

DEJA VU 

31.60 

SILICON BEACH SOFTWARE 


STUDIO SESSION 

56.25 

RACTER 

25.85 

ACCCESORY PACK #1 

23.00 

MARK OF THE UNICORN 


BRATACCAS 

CALL 

SILICON PRESS 

46.00 

PROFESSIONAL COMPOSER 

395.00 

UNINVITED 

31.00 

SIMON & SCHUSTER MAC ART DEPT 

22.97 

PROFESSIONAL PERFORMER 

250.00 

PBI SOFTWARE 


SOFTSTYLE COLORMATE 

54.75 

MINDSCAPE 


FOKKER TRIPLANE 

35.00 

COLORMATE ART 

0.00 

BANK STREET MUSIC WRITER 

22.97 

STRATEGIC CONQUEST 

29.00 

T-MAKER CLICK ART ALL 

28.72 

OPCODE 


PENGUIN PENSATE 

22,97 

CLICK ON WORKSHEET 

45.97 

MIDI MACV INTERFACE 

125.00 

THE QUEST 

22.97 

THUNDER WARE 


MIDI MAC PLUS INTERFACE 

175.00 

TRANSYLVANIA 

22.97 

THUNDER SCAN . v3.2 

174.50 

SEQUENCER II 

200.00 

XYPHUS 

22.97 



YAMAHA DX/TX EDITOR.LIBR. 

200.00 

POLARWARE CRIMSON CROWN 

23.00 

HARDWARE 


CASIO CZ EDITOR/LIBRARIAN 

125.00 

PRACTICAL COMPUTER MAC GOLF 

39.50 

AST RESEARCH 


CASIO 101 KEYBOARD 

350.00 

PSION CHESS 

35.00 

AST-2000 20MB 

2340.00 

DX/TX/TX816 PATCH/LIBRARIAN 

100 00 

SCARBOROUGH MAC PACK 

86.22 

AST-4000 74MB 

4895.00 

UTILITIES 


MAKE MILLIONS 

28.72 

CORVUS COMPLETE LINE FOR THE OFFICE 

AFFINITY TEMPO vl.1 

78.00 

MASTERTYPE 

28.72 

11 MEG OMNI DRIVE 

1550.00 

BATTERIES INCLUDED 


RUN FOR THE MONEY 

28.72 

21 MEG OMNI DRIVE 

2300.00 

MAC BATTERY PAK 

28.72 

SIERRA ON LINE ULTIMA III 

34.25 

HAYES SMART MODEM 1200 

400.00 

BORLAND 


CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING 

22.97 

SMART MODEM 2400 

575.00 

SIDEKICK/WITH PHONE LINK 

56.80 

FROGGER 

22.97 

IOMEGA COMPLETE LINE CALL 

CENTRAL POINT SOFTWARE 


ULTIMA II 

34.47 

BERNOULLI BOX 10MG SCSI 

1765.00 

COPY II MAC LATEST VERSION 

23.00 

SILICON BEACH AIRBORNE 

20.10 

BB 2-10MG FILE SERVER 

2455.00 

DREAMS OF THE PHOENIX 


ENCHANTED SCEPTORS 

23.10 

LODOWN 


MOST 

$27.50 

DARK CASTLE 

30.00 

COMPLETE LINE CALL FOR HELP 


FWB SOFTWARE 


WORLD BUILDER 

48.00 

20MG SCSI 

890.00 

HARD DISK UTIL 

66.50 

SIR TECH WIZARDRY 

34.47 

40MG SCSI 

1790.00 

HAYDEN 


SPECTRUM HOLOBYTE GATO 

26.00 

MACMEMORY 2MEG UPGRADE 

395.00 

M.U.D. OR ART GRABBER W/BS 

28.50 

ORBITER OR TELLSTAR 1 OR II 

26.00 

MICRO CONVERSIONS 2 MEG 

500.00 

MAINSTAY 


STRATEGIC GEMSTONE WARRIOR 

20.10 

RELAX MAC-MATE 20 MEG SCS 

795.00 

NCRYPTOR 

27.75 

BORROWED TIME OR HACKER 

25.60 

SUMAGRAPHICS 12X12 TABLET 

349.0 

MAC BOOSTER 

34.50 

MIND SHADOW 

25.60 

LANGUAGES 


MACASM 

86.25 

CHAMPIONSHIP STAR BASEBALL 

. 20.10 

CONSULAR 


TELESCAPE 

86.25 



MAC C /TOOLKIT/SMARTLINKER 

261.50 

TURBO DOWN LOAD 

27.00 

GRAPHICS 


MANX CALL FOR HELP WITH THIS LINE 

MAC SPOOL 

34.25 

ALTSYS FONTASTIC 

30.10 

C AZTEC C68K-C COMMERCIAL 

425.00 

DISK RANGER 

34.25 

FONTTOGRAPHER 

237.20 

MEGAMAX INC FOR HELP 

CALL 

NEVINS MICROSYSTEMS 


ANN ARBOR FULL PAINT 

60.00 



TURBO CHARGER 2.0 

54.50 

BOSTON SOFTWARE PUBL 






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U APDI IDI ICLJCD 

32.00 

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CASADY LASERFONTS ALL TITLES 

42.30. 





CENTURY LASER FONTS ALL TITLES 

18.25 

We accept VISA. MASTERCARD, and AMERICAN EXPRESS 


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18.25 

For quickest service call us. If 

ordering by mail, send cashier’s check, certified check 

COMPUCRAFT 


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Except 

FULL LIBARARY 

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allow two weeks for check to clear 

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27.50 

residents please add 8.1% sales tax. 



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56.50 

OUR POLICY 




ENTER SET QUICK PAINT 

28.50 

Software: Due to Federal regulations, all sales are final. Defective software 

will be 

HAYDEN HOME DESIGN 

CALL 

replaced with like item. Any 

other return will be subject to 20% restocking fee, 

BUILDINGS OR INTERIORS 

28.72 

against credit. All returns must 

have an authorization number. Call 206 883 1975. 

DA VINCI BUILDING BLOCKS 

45.97 

Shipping Charges: Standard is 

UPS ground.$3.00 minimum. COD, for US Corporations 

DA VINCI COMM. INTERIORS 

114.97 

only add $2.50. MAIL: Air, Insured. .US Postal, APO, FPO add 3%, $5.00 min. Alaska or 

LANDSCAPE 

VIDEO WORKS 

28.72 

57.47 

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by John C. Dvorak 


THERE IS NO 
TOMORROW 

A Macmmp Saga 

I was sitting in the Cate Micro mind¬ 
ing my own business when I was 
rudely interrupted bv an irate Macin¬ 
tosh owner. 

“Hey aren't you Dvorak the anti- 
editor,” he said with a sneer that empha¬ 
sized the word “anti,” saying "aunt-tic* 
instead. 

“It depends,* I said not knowing if the 
guy was crazy and at the same time 
realizing mv answer was idiotic. 

“Depends on what? The day of the 
week, the phase of the moon. Don’t ITS. 
me, Jack. You are Dvorak. Well, I've got 
some good grist for that mill of yours.* 
Spinning a chair around, he sat down at 
my table with the back of the chair in 
front of him so he could lean up against 
it while straddling the chair and began 
his story. 

“You know how you never say any¬ 
thing good about the Macintosh in Mac- 
User} You bitch and moan about every¬ 
thing. You make up stories about aliens 
and hypnotism and phoney machines 
and 68000 programming slobs. I used to 
hate that stuff. But I now agree with 
most of your complaints, as much as I 
hate them.” He eye balled my cup of 
espresso, “I discovered, though, that it’s 
not the machine that's the problem — 
it's the users. They’re , uninspired jerks. 
Mac wimps.” 

I was aghast. “What do vou mean — 
Macwimps?* 

“Macwimps. Look at all the great 
software our there. Products like Mac- 
Spin — an incredible data analysis pro¬ 
gram. And what about the fancy data¬ 
base managers like Helix and FileMaker 
Pius ? Look at the icon-based adventure 
games like Deja Vu zndUnimitcdl That’s 
the first new thing I’ve ever seen in the 
game market since Pac-Man was cloned. 
MacUscr magazine is filled with informa¬ 
tion about interesting software.” He 
waved his arms and took a slug of my 
coffee. “Guess what? Nobody cares,* 
“You're telling me that the Macintosh 
user doesn’t buy anything.” 
“Absolutely! They’re cheap tightwads. 



Look, I was a developer and we did a lot 
of research and discovered that the soft¬ 
ware business for the Mae stinks. No¬ 
body buys anything. They get the damn 
computer and spend the rest of their lives 
with MacPaint and Mac Write. What a 
bunch of boring duds. The}’ can’t appre¬ 
ciate the Mac because they were wimps 
to start with. Let’s face it, it's a wimpy 
computer and it attracts wimps.” 

“Well, 1 have to admit that the soft¬ 
ware business for the Mac hasn’t picked 
up even though the machine is selling 
over 40,000 a month,” I said. 

“Bight! And the software business is 
stagnant. It sure hasn’t blossomed has it? 
Bv the way, Ben Jenkins is my name 
...programming’s my game.” He extend¬ 
ed his right hand while finishing my cup 
of espresso with the left. 

“Glad to meet you.” 

“So whaddya think about doing a 
column about the Mac that says..." he 
spread out his hands as if to outline a 
large headline “...Macintosh...a wimp 
computer for Macwimps!” 

I rubbed my chin. “Well, you know, 
the users aren’t solely to blame.” 

“Howso?” Jenkins asked screwing up 
his face. 

“Well, look at my situation. I write 
about the Macintosh for MacUscr — the 
best Macintosh magazine in the world. 
And I write about the Macintosh for a 
daily newspaper and I write about the 
Macintosh for some other publications. I 
do a lot of writing. Meanwhile I never 
hear from any of these developers with 
all these hot products until the thing has 
been out for a year and the company is 
broke. Their mentality is all ego. They 
think that what they’re doing is so great 
that wc 3 ll all find out about it through 
telepathy or the second coining.” 

I continued. “It’s a miracle that anyone 
finds out about half this stuff. The 


the item. They’re rank amateurs. It’s an 
embarrassment Why should the users be 
any different. The whole scene is Mickey 
Mouse. I suppose that's why the mouse 
is the thing. Now thafs a column idea. 
And it all goes back to the notion chat 
68000 people are simply lazy.” I ordered 
another espresso. 

“Hmmm, that’s interesting. I never 
thought of talking to the press about my 
product. How do I do that?” 

“It’s called the phone. P-H-G-N-E. 
You may have heard of it. The least you 
could do is send a new product an¬ 
nouncement to the editors of the maga¬ 
zines and newsletters.” 

He perked up. “Really? How do I do 
that? fust mail an announcement, huh? 
How about that.” 

Oh brother, 1 thought to myself, this 
guy has a problem. It's like the entire 
microcomputer revolution started over 
with this guy and his ilk — started over 
on square one. The entire Mac commu¬ 
nity is so unsophisticated, shcesh. No 
wonder the software isn’t selling — no¬ 
bod}’ knows what they’re doing. 

To make matters worse, the market¬ 
place isn't like it was several years ago. 
There aren’t any funky enthusiast maga¬ 
zines that arc amateurish, but sympathet¬ 
ic to the plight of the buyer with his or 
her first machine. They said “Golly gee 
whiz” to everything and reflected a new¬ 
comer’s mentality. Those days are over. 
The magazines are slick and polished — 
there is no allowance for a second wave 
of gung-ho newcomers to be slowly 
brought into the fold of experience. 
We're here — join us or die. Kind of like 
a third-world country that missed the 
industrial revolution, but has to modern¬ 
ize. Rough go, I suppose. But what do 1 
know? I'm paid to complain. 

Whatever the ease, Jenkins shook his 
head and wandered off. I never saw him 



134MACUSER NOVEMBER 1936 


BOB ZIMMERMAN 









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